#324 Father Ripperger - The Signs of Diabolical Influence in America

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And the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and direct old Lord all our actions by the holy inspirations and carry them on by their gracious assistance. So that every prayer and a work of ours may begin from thee and by thee be Heavenly through Christ our Lord. Amen. Amen. And the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit. - So I'm going to be honest, I actually came here originally. My plan was a completely different agenda. And I came here to attempt to eviscerate and destroy two politicians within the current administration that I think are going to over exaggerate their allegiance to the Catholic Church to try to sway the Catholic vote. And I'm not going to do that. The last couple of weeks I've just realized that the battle maybe isn't over the country, not even over the world. It's over our souls and over our mind. That's right. And I don't think it matters who walks into that office. It is going to be somebody under heavy diabolical influence. Maybe even straight Satanism. And I think what we're saying today is human sacrifice. I don't think it matters what side gets in there. They're either going to send our youth to war to die for another country, or they're going to psychologically mutilate their brains and convince them to mutilate their bodies and dismember themselves. And I think that it all goes down to human sacrifice. Do you believe that? - I do. I think for some time, this was about 10 years ago. I made an observation in the public conference that this is no longer a battle of ideas. It's no longer a battle of the people have differences of opinions. This is a battle of good and evil at this point. And so many of the patterns which we see in the psychological behavior of people who are diabolically influenced, you see those same patterns and the people that are running the government and in positions of power. And so for the longest time, I've known that this is ultimately a battle over good and evil at this point. So regardless of what, as you mentioned, regardless of whichever political party or whoever gets in there, you know, you can shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, but it's still going to go down if people don't address this in a spiritual manner. I'll tell you one thing. I've learned over the past several weeks is I will never put my hope or faith in another man ever again. It says it right in scripture. It's better to trust in God than in princes because they'll end up selling you out every time. I actually saw this even with when the Jews said we wanted a king, they told God they wanted a king, which is ironic because the Jews were the only ones who ever had a theocracy, an authentic theocracy in the entire history of the world, and they still said they wanted a king. So then he says, well, this is what he's going to do. If I give you the king, this is what he's going to do. He's going to send your children off the war. He's going to take your best lands. He's going to do this that. The other thing they said we still want a king. So we never learn. We don't learn. So before we get to the good stuff, I do want to cover the alien topic again. Okay. I think it's a dark topic and I have an inclination that's already been put out in messaging that the aliens wrote the Bible to control humanity. That's already a narrative that's being spread. We have a timeline of events here that's going on. I'll read him real quick. In the timeline seems to be speeding up. Here's here's the last couple of months. March 2026. Vice President Vance says publicly he believes UFOs are demons. The spiritual read reaches the second highest office in the country, May of 2026. The US government releases UFO files and splashy headline grabbing fashion. Disclosure moves from fringe to official late May. A group of charismatic pastors claims US officials met with them and warned them to prepare their churches for the theological implications of disclosure. May 29th to June 3rd. Steven Rosetti posted video. Most UFO sightings are in fact demons. Cardinal Melroy removes him at Washington DC's exorcist within days. June 7th. Spielberg on CBS Morning frames the faith question for a mass audience. Is our God? Is God our God only on this planet? June 12th. Disclosure Day opens nationwide in a film which the government releases UFO files mirroring real events three weeks earlier. Why are we seeing this sudden fascination within our government in a split-up timeline in UFO and disclosure release along the coincides with Hollywood? My only, you know, ultimately I don't know why they're going to do it other than it's just another aspect of trying to control people psychologically or to manipulate people. And so that's part of it is too is that they're playing on the fact that people generally are pretty ignorant about history like, you know, as we were mentioning that, you know, that the that the scriptures were actually written by aliens that type of thing or that the aliens actually come here to offer us a way to save humanity. So they want a supplant Christianity and that type of thing. And so my suspicion is, you know, again, how much evidence I would have for it. I don't really know, but my suspicion is is that a lot of the people that are in government are actually anti-Christian and so far their way with their goal is is to supplant Christianity by an alternative explanation of our origins and things of that sort. Do you think it is a possibility that the narrative that they are going to try to destroy Christianity by saying that aliens wrote the Bible to control us? Do you think that is an actual possibility? Yeah. Actually, if you look at the history of like, for example, of, I mean, the supposed alien communication with people other than say, abductions, but there's also where people claim to have some type of communication with aliens on another planet through astroprojection or some of the form of communication. It's always to supplant Christianity as the solution to man's problems. The demons, or not the demons so much, but we can get into that too. But the aliens always say, well, we're here, we're coming, or this is what But we want to communicate to you to provide a solution to all of man's problems. We can help you out with that. And then sometimes they even will propose that human beings originated, that they were basically just the spawner, the seeds from there having visited our planet in the past. So it's basically a whole supplanting of the genesis narrative about man's origins and things of that sort. So the whole idea is to supplant Christianity as the actual understanding of reality ultimately. Would God have made another race somewhere else in the universe? Well there's two, my view of all these things tends to be very complex because of the fact that as an exorcist I follow what's called the principle of evidence very closely. And the principle of evidence says that the certitude of our judgment about something is based upon the certitude of the evidence. So if the evidence doesn't give us certitude, we can kind of arrive at a conclusion, but we don't have that same degree of certitude that you would have if you actually saw something or that type of thing. And so that being said, if you actually look at the actual evidence for the possibility of them living in other locations, then you have to address questions like is macroevolution at microevolution? Is macroevolution even possible? Is it scientifically possible, which is very problematic? Theologically and philosophically there's all sorts of problems with it. And the reason for that is because the theory is that if there was evolution here, then that means there would be evolution in the other parts of the universe. And so there would be beings that would evolve maybe before us and therefore be more intelligent et cetera. And so that's kind of the scientific background that they kind of give to it. But the evolution question is obviously a whole kind of an interview on its own. But that's one of the questions it has to actually be answered first. The second thing that is, as I've read, top tier astrophysicists who actually are really serious about, you know, not just because we see something in the sky that we can't explain and therefore we conclude that they're from another planet. And that's where the principle of evidence is actually violated because in point and fact, just because you see something you can't explain, doesn't mean there's people in other planets. That's a logical leap that is problematic. And then the abduction questions, which are often linked to those things, then also has another possible explanation, et cetera. So what's happening is that people are not following the principle of evidence closely. But when you read the astrophysicists, the top tier astrophysicists, they're all very adamant in saying that the energy requirements to be able to travel even from like one of our closest neighbors is so extreme that it's not reasonable to presume that it's even possible and make based upon the science and the mathematics. I mean, why would God create other beings anyways? I mean, he loves us so much. Yeah. I mean, we see I can feel the battle within me of good and evil. I can feel it. I think a lot of people can feel it. Yeah. In a certain sense, just a caveat to that, I mean, we're the only species on the planet that even is aware of its own death. That's correct. Yeah. That's right. That's why wouldn't he make another superintelligence here on this planet? Why would it? Why? Well, and therein actually lies a specific philosophical question. If you actually look at, there's a principle called the hierarchy of being, which basically means that when God created the universe, he created it in a hierarchy from the lowest thing, like the lowest elements, rocks, that type of thing, all the way up through the highest, which is the angels at the very top. And every single intermediate stage has some kind of a being. This is why we see all sorts of different kind of animals and that type of thing up that goes up through the gradation. And the human beings are, as we read in scripture, a little less than the angels. So we're the ones that bridge the gap between the angels and animals, because we're a rational animal, right? There are animals, but we have rationality, and that's why we're the only ones that have knowledge of that type of thing. And so what, and then to put it in philosophical terms, the specific difference that human beings have from other animals is precisely the fact that we're rational, we're intelligent, and we can know these things. So that's what makes it specifically different. If there are, if you have other beings and other planets, then you'd actually have a problem with the principle of the hierarchy of being, because you have to have two beings that have the same specific difference, but they're not in the same species. The other part of it is, too, is, and this is where the real supplanting of Christianity occurs. I know there's theologians who have tried to argue contrary to this, but it never washed, which is basically, if Adam and Eve were created in a state of perfection, and then there was a fall as a result of that, then when Christ came, he came specifically to redeem Adam's line. His whole, in fact, the fathers say that where the crucifixion took place is directly over the tomb, where Adam was buried, specifically to indicate that his was the spilling of his blood, to redeem the line of Adam. And so original sin, which was committed, which we all get, we all were all messed up as a result of that, is passed on to human nature. If that was the case, then you would actually, if that's the case, theologically, which, you know, we all believe, even Protestants recognize that there was this sin that they originally committed, and now we're all kind of affected by it, then what happens is you would actually have beings in the universe, intelligent beings, that were not from the line of Adam, but were now subject to the effects, because St. Paul says that, and which we actually see, is the whole of creation, groans under the weight of the sin, basically of Adam. In other words, all of the universe got affected as a result of Adam's sin, because he was the one that was placed in dominion over the totality of the naturally created order. And so when he fell, he took the whole created order with him, and that's why we see death among animals. This is why we see starvation, even among animals and things like that. So even they suffer as a result of that. Well, you'd actually have as being that didn't actually, wasn't in that line, and still be somehow subject to it. And so this is, that creates a theological problem. There's all sorts of other issues that actually arise in relationship to the whole positing of those creatures in another location. The second part about it is that if you, if the fathers of the church, so the fathers of the church are those that were writing from right at the death of the last apostles up until about 800 to a thousand. And the reason why, in the church, we tend to pay quite a bit attention to them, is because they were so close to the time of the apostles that they actually had the tradition in certain things, from the apostles it was still intact. So they actually understood, you know, when the apostles wrote certain things in scripture, what those things meant, because they had this proximity of people who were still alive and say, yeah, this is what he said, and this is what we understood by it. So that's why the fathers of the church are so key. Okay. But the fathers of the church, you know, basically make it very clear that we are basically human beings, are the center of the moral universe in the sense that even the angels that were created, their entire battle, which we can talk about later, their entire creation and their entire battle, we all revolved around us ultimately in the end. And so you would actually have a situation where there's beings on other planets where the whole totality of the angelic order had nothing to do with them. So there's a lot of theological problems. And so in the end, this, the idea that there's beings on other planets, which by the way is not new. This has been around for millennia. This idea was a wholeheartedly rejected by philosophers, theologians and, you know, and even scientists in large part now. Let me tell you guys a story real quick. Once upon a time, there was a guy who joined the SEAL teams. And then he went to CIA and he could get some contracting over there. And one thing he learned is that when it comes to devices, cell phones, tablets, computers, pretty much anything, there is no privacy. When he got to Central Intelligence Agency, he had to be issued all these special devices like black phones to help protect sensitive information, so it wouldn't get out. And then this guy got out of that and he started a podcast. And when the podcast started, he was just kind of talking to former colleagues, people over at Central Intelligence Agency, former soft guys, dev group guys, delta guys. And then it kind of developed and it turned into interviewing politicians and then it turned into interviewing presidents and vice presidents. And then it turned into heads of state. this guy through the arc of the pod. Podcasts started really becoming concern not only for his own privacy, but also for the privacy of his team for traveling all over the world And so they won on a venture and they were looking for a Black phone a black device that cannot be tracked. They found it And when they found it, they realized how expensive that is it's Almost unaffordable So that guy in the story is me and so what I've done now Is I wanted to develop an app That's affordable For everybody to protect you in your data You see you don't realize How much information is being exploited out of your device to track you to sell your information And destroy your privacy and so I partnered with a couple of former intelligence guys NSA types And we developed an app called the Glacier app What the Glacier app is is the first thing that I wanted was burner numbers I wanted numbers because I'm connected to all these different people all over the all over the world state actors politicians people I don't trust And my number gets leaked and then I start getting phone calls from people that I don't want phone calls from Maybe for regular people Your order in a pizza you're staying at a hotel You're donating to a political campaign and then you start getting all the spam calls right well Now you don't have to do that you can get a burner number through this application that we developed the applications called the Glacier app And when the relationships done You just delete the number you pick a new one you can pick any area code you want That way when you burn the number There's absolutely zero way for them to get back in contact with you on top of that We built a secure DNS. So basically what secure DNS is is it allows you to surf the web without being tracked You know what I'm talking about you talk about something with your family maybe a product maybe you want to buy some new Piece of gear and then the next thing you know you're getting advertisements all over your phone for it Because they're listening they're exploiting your data and they're selling it. They're tracking you So that's what DNS kind of helps with then we put an American owned us Vapn company so you see a lot of these other VPN companies that you think are American are owned by China their own by Russia their own by Israel And a lot of these companies own Several VPN maybe 20 30 maybe 50 maybe a hundred VPN companies, but it's all one company that owns it and So we are an all-American VPN company and we store no data all the data stays on your device It took a long time to develop this we put a lot into it It's been about a year and it's finally here. You've heard about me talking about it on the show Once again, it's called the Glacier app. It's available at the glacier app calm or on the Apple store right now It's only available for iOS devices, but Soon it will be for Android as well, and we'll send email updates on that so I want you to remember one thing privacy is not paranoia. It's protection Once again the glacier app calm. Thank you. I Think a lot of people are tracking the wrong things when it comes to health They track steps workouts body weight all that kind of stuff and that stuff can be useful But if you don't know what's happening inside your body, you're still missing the bigger picture That's why I use super power super power gives you a real look under the hood one simple lab test Gives you information on over a hundred bio markers. 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I think there's two reasons one is because we're made in his image and that that image The logical tradition is very clear is because we have Intelligence and free will so he made us that way to be like him in that regard because his choice to create us was purely free He didn't have to but he made it so he want when he created us In fact, St. Augustine makes the observation that one of the greatest Signs of God's omnipotence is the ability to create something and sustain it in being and even sustain its acts in being that has the ability to choose between different goods And this isn't the term into one thing. That's a sign of omnipotence and so in us is the man is his image and the manifestation of his glory So if you read the theologians especially like Thomas Aquinas He makes the observation that Because God is goodness itself the proper object of God's love and will is himself Because he's goodness itself The difference is is we aren't goodness itself and so for us to be make ourselves that are our own objects of of our own love Basically is disorder because our good we're only good Because we are somehow participate in his good. Okay But when he creates us It's called the principle redundance the good redounds to us and so we are good Yeah, in many ways It could by virtue of the fact that we manifest intelligence and will we can make choices we can become virtuous And so as a result of that we he sees the good in us and then that's why he loves us because we're like him And so his love for us and even when he shows his love for us is directly to proportionate to how much we're like him What was before everything what was before angels what was before us what was What was before was was there always good and evil or was there just good there was just good Because there was just God The difficulty was saying what was before us is this the fact that we're transposing time on God So there's actually three states that beings exist in there's what's called eternity Which has neither a beginning or an end and there's no sequence of events. It's just the eternal now That's what God is in and so God actually sees what you're doing now what you did in the past What you're going to do in the future he sees whether you make it to heaven he sees all of that at the same instance because There's no beginning or end with him and so in a certain sense There's no before or after with God. So God who was in eternity If we want to put it from our perspective before he created us Even though even that's not entirely accurate, but God always exists and so and God whose goodness itself there was only good Then he creates the angels Into what's called the avum which has a beginning but it has no end and so the angels will always exist When we die and go to heaven we enter into the avum because it will never end So we'll either be in heaven or we'll be in hell for all eternity. So there's that in this life When he created us we he created us in time Which is kind of a law or a structure which Regulates the passage of matter through motion is basically the way the philosophers talk about it But it has a beginning and it will have an end at the final judgment. Okay So before um God created the angels and us he always was and so there he was there was only good When he created the angels He created them in a state of innocence in a state of perfection and also what's called the state of grace that there was in their their nature's or substance, a qualitative reflection of him, a participation in his divine nature is how St. Paul describes it, but he created them in that state of perfection, and then some of them, through their free choice, chose to reject that, and that's when evil first entered. How many angels are there? We don't know. We don't know the exact number, obviously, but we know they're in the order of billions. The reason we know that is just because it is, in theology, we have various degrees of certainty about theological propositions. So for example, that Christ is God. We know it is part of divine revelation, so it's absolutely certain. But then there's some other things like this particular question of whether each person has their own guardian angel is called theologically certain. That's not divinely revealed, but there's indicators in scripture for it. And then also just through the church's tradition and experience of the church, we know that each person was created for their own guardian angel. So if that's the case, then that being the case, the number of human beings that's generally speculated to have lived is about 20 billion. So we know just, and there's nine hierarchies, sorry, nine choirs of angels, of the lowest rank is the angels, and each one of us got a guardian angel. So that means just in that lowest rank, just one subset is 20 billion. But there's more angels that also were given other jobs. And so it's literally in the billions. You go up the hierarchy, it becomes less and less number of angels in each one of the choirs. But we know that there are literally billions. The fascinating thing is, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, but then also to which he basins it off, sutra Dionysius' writings in the early church, very early church, within the first one or two centuries of the church, that that entire hierarchy of angels was created instantaneously, all at once, instantaneously, all at once, solid. So unlike human beings, which God creates our souls, and there's more of us that are created with time, the whole nine choirs were all of them created instantaneously at once. Were our souls all created at once? No. They're created at the time of your conception. So your souls created and infused it in you at the time of your conception. So human beings, there's an ongoing creation and relationship to their souls, but angels, the totality of them were created all at once. How long before humans were their angels? Do we know that? The fathers of the church say that when he created this totality of the angels, then he immediately after that began the creation of, in the creation of counting genesis, he began the creation. He first, you know, creates the light and things like that, so you have that first days. It's followed immediately upon that, and then human beings follow after that. Can we talk about the hierarchy, what is the hierarchy? So the angels were created in a hierarchy structure, and there's nine choirs, broken into what they call ranks. So there's three ranks. So it's kind of like almost like a military in that sense. The very top rank is made of the seraphim, which is the very top. And each angel is its own species, and as an actressess dealing with fallen angels, their personalities are so distinct, much more distinct than human personalities. And so you do get a sense of that they're each specifically different. Or that has to do with human beings and also with other animals, a species is different because of the fact that there's something about them called the specific difference. It makes this species different from another one, that's called the specific difference. With human beings, we don't have a difference. You and I don't, we're not specifically different, we're both, in fact, human beings, the specific difference is rationality. You and I are both rational, so we know we are the same species. It makes us difference is what we call accidental qualities. So the fact that you're, you know, a bit taller than I am, bigger build, et cetera, you have different facial structure, et cetera, your race is a little bit different to mine, et cetera. So there's, those different qualities make us different as human beings. Angels don't have that. They don't have, so it's matter, specifically bodies. It's the fact that I have this body and you have that body, which makes us different as human beings. And though, by different, in the sense of you're one human being and I'm one human being, but we're both of the same species, okay. Because angels don't have bodies, as a result of that, their specific difference is in their nature, which we can talk about that, because that itself is fascinating, right, if we can get to that relationship to their fall, because it plays a key role in their fall of some of them. But that basically means that every single angel is specifically different. There is different, as say, a grasshopper is from a cow. That's how different they are. And they're different, so their each is different. So those differences are then grouped into nine separate kind of categories, and that's the choir. And what makes one angel different from another is how intelligent they are. So the very top angel is far more intelligent, and so he can understand things much more universally, much more broadly, and also to much greater depth than the one that's all the way at the bottom. Even though the lowest angel is far more intelligent than us, nevertheless, there's this hierarchy, and it's based on intelligence. An important point of that also means that their will is proportionate to how intelligent they are. So they have a stronger will based upon how intelligent they are. This is why in hell, they're still a hierarchy based upon how strong of a will that they actually have. So Satan has the strongest will because he was from the cherubim, which is the second. So the top rank is the serifim. And St. Thomas Aquinas says that their primary function and role was to simply love God. Their whole reason for being was to love him. What exactly do I mean? What does that look like? What is that? If you if you were a serifim, what is it means that you're daily? Yeah. You're holding, because he creates each angel with its own natural life, its own natural set of inclinations. So just as, so for example, when a human being gets married, we have a natural inclination around when they get married, there's a joy that they have in the marriage, right? In being married, if it's a good marriage, of course. Or we have a natural inclination to eat. So when we eat, we feel satisfied, et cetera. So they get a fulfillment in just fulfilling the role or their task for which they were created, which is their nature. So for them, for the serifim, it literally means just sitting around and contemplating God for all eternity, just contemplating and then loving him at the various facets of his goodness. Because God is infinite, and even the angelic and the angelic intellects are limited, it means that for all eternity, they can be looking at a variety of different facets in God and driving joy and love and loving God, seeing that goodness in him for all eternity and it's never exhausted. That's what it is for us when we get to heaven, once we get to see God face to face, for all eternity we'll be learning something new about him and the delight that we'll get out of that. We'll bring him. So for them, when they see those good things in God, they're naturally inclined to love him from that perspective. What a human being ever have interaction with a serifim. Yes, they can at times. Not necessarily in this life. St. Thomas says that their interaction with us is fairly limited and has to do with the scope. So the top rank deals with God. So the serifim, their job is to love God. The cherubim, their perfections that God gave them, was to know God, to know the various aspects of God. That's why if you look at the patterns of the psychology of Satan, formerly Lucifer, part of Lucifer 2, which we can talk about, his psychological patterns of that of a cherubim, which is what St. Thomas talks about. And the reason being is because for him everything that revolves around knowledge of beauty, ultimately, which is what he was created for. But then, I'm seeing that contemplating that beauty in God. And then the next one is the throne. So the throne, their job is to take that knowledge about God and what his will is, and then propagate that knowledge down through the middle rank. And so the middle rank is actually, their job is administrative. So as an exorcist, even when you get demons that have fallen there from that middle rank, you rarely see them because that middle rank is really about governance of those below them and making sure everything is done right. So it's basically middle management type of thing. And God created three different choirs for that. So you have the thrones, principalities, powers, and dominations that were to turn the middle. And then below that, then is the lowest choir of reign, and their jobs are the foot soldiers. So the middle rank, the top rank, contemplates God, the thrones, tell them this is what God's will is. That governance process, the commands and stuff are propagated down through the middle ranks. And then you have the lowest rank that actually executes them. And so that lower ranks, which also includes archangels and angels, that lower ranks, their job is to act. actually execute. So that's those angels are the ones that we will actually have interaction with more than likely. God's special forces is exactly. Can angels advance at rank? No. Because what they're they're rank in the hierarchy is fixed. Well, let me back up just a bit. How high you are in heaven in that hierarchy is directly proportionate to how holy you are. Human beings can actually take the place of fallen angels up through that rank by becoming holy, very holy, and then they can get a position that would be higher in the ranks in relationship to that. So for example, it is the transition of the Catholic Church to believe that our lady underneath Christ, the underneath Christ, the first one is our lady, then underneath them are the apostles. And then I also, and then St. Joseph, John the Baptist, there's kind of a debate at who's on the top of that, then the apostles and then the seraphim. So they're even above, the apostles are even above the seraphim. And then other under saints, because they become holy, take the place of different locations. I've actually have a case I'm working on right now that part of the reason this woman's case is dragging out is because she has to reach a level of holiness, which she's getting there. She has to reach a level of holiness to take the place of one of the possessors that had fallen. So, human beings can actually take that. Okay, so what does that mean? Human beings, because in this life, we can perform actions that merit, and therefore increase and raise our place in heaven, we can actually get a higher place in heaven than some of the angels. But the angels, their holiness is directly proportionate to their nature. It's fixed. They can't merit anything. And so that's why they have one choice. And then if they make that choice, their rank in heaven becomes fixed based upon that amount of holiness that they have. So a human can can become an angel, or they can, they can become an angel. They don't become an angel. They get into the ranks. They go up through the ranks or through the choirs in the sense of they become holier than an angel. And therefore they get their amount of holiness that they have would exceed those angels that are below them. And so they're above them in the command structure in heaven, the authority structure in heaven. I've heard, and I might have this wrong, is there, is there will God pick 300 humans for the end times to bad, to do His battle against evil? I've heard that theory, but I have not seen the evidence to back it up. Okay. So it could be, we'll, we'll find out. There are certain things we know about the end, like John the, uh, that, uh, Saint Elijah and Saint Enoch are going to return. That type of thing. So let's talk about the fall. Okay. What happened? So when the angels were created, they're sort of the whole hierarchy of angels is created at once. Now the way angels know things is the exact opposite of the way we know things. The way we know something is, we have to come in contact with the thing we have to work with for a little while, then eventually we kind of gain a more abstract knowledge of it. And eventually we can kind of have a universal knowledge of the thing. So it takes us a while to actually get to the point where we fully understand something. And so, and we even see this, even when we wake up, you know, we wake up, it takes us a while to get fully functioning. And even when we're going to make a choice a lot of times, we have to go through a series of steps to kind of consider various things before we make the choice. Okay. That's because our knowledge comes to the senses. We have to be in contact with something. And then from that we can actually know something about it. Um, and we can also infer knowledge based upon that, um, about other things that we don't necessarily see, et cetera. Okay. With angels, their, their knowledge is infused. So at the time by God, that's their mode of knowing St. Thomas says. So what at the first instance of their creation, God did two things. The first is he, in addition to creating them and creating them in the state of grace and state of perfection. He also infused in them the knowledge of all of the essences of created things. And basically what that means is they know exactly what a human being is. They know what dogs are cats are. They know, they know the nature of these things where human beings take a while to finally fully understand those things. They immediately exhaust everything there is to know about those just by thinking about them to the degree of their intelligence and infinite knowledge. It's not infinite because it's still limited because they're limited, but it's they instantaneously understand everything that could be known about that thing to the degree of their intelligence instantaneously. They don't have to think things through. Okay. So that's when it comes to the natures of things, but that's distinct. That kind of knowledge of things is distinct from knowing this thing is going to happen at this point in time. Those are called particulars. So the ones are kind of called universal knowledge of things. The particulars are infused in them as they actually occur by God. So for example, the angels and the demons know what we are talking about as we talk about it because it's infused in their minds. So for example, if they want to know what's going on in another room, they just have to think about that room and then boom, they can see immediately what's actually there. Okay. When they were created, they were created into an act of knowing because they instantaneously exhaust what there is to know. And in that, in that act of knowing, they learned a few things. One, who they are, they instantaneously saw their own nature and their specific difference. They actually understood by that fact that God had given them an assigned task. And that assigned task that he had given to them is who they are. It's their very nature of who they are. Then, which we'll talk about what that means in the fall, plus they were given knowledge of all the other angels because it's all infused. They give the knowledge of all the other angels and their assigned tasks. They were also given knowledge that God was eventually going to become incarnate through Jesus Christ and that there were going to be certain human beings. Those who were created guardian angels were given knowledge of the person that they were going to have to guard and to protect and certain aspects of that person's life because they would actually be told, this is the person you're going to be protecting and this is his, that this is God's will for him in certain respects. They didn't know all of it, but they knew a lot of it. Okay. They understood, so they understood who they are, who the other angels are, but their assigned task was, what they're, these other particular things. And then they also knew who God was. And they also, St. Thomas says, were infused with faith, hope, and charity. So they actually knew that God, the second person that journey was going to be coming incarnate. And we actually know that from Scripture that they were given that knowledge in the very beginning because when Christ first first shows up on the scene, they're like, is this the guy? Is this the guy? Is this guy? And then once they see's doing miracles and he's doing all this other stuff and the nature of his teaching, they realize, this is the guy. He's the only only Christ could explain that who this guy, you know, because we were told that he was going to be coming incarnate. Okay. So they knew that Christ was going to be coming incarnate and then, and they also knew that God was going to create human beings etc. So, but they also knew God, that a perfect knowledge of God, they had knowledge that he was triune because of their faith that God showed them that he was trained that there's God's son, God's Holy Spirit, God the Father, that he was trained. All of that, they saw in an instant. So they saw all of that and the resulting factor that they saw that intellectually, the natural response of the will Saint Thomas says when they saw that was the light, the beauty of it, the magnificent, the grandeur of it was just so magnificent that they just, they were taken by it in their first instance. And so their first experience in their will wasn't their first choice because it was something which the will just naturally gravitated for towards because it was so beautiful. That was the, that's in their first instance of their creation because remember, they're in the avium which has a sequence of events. So they have, they have, that's the first instance. Because they saw that they also were, in that same thing, they also saw if they were faithful, they would get to see God face to face and be happy for all eternity. But if they rejected God, they would be, they would be damned in hell and miserable for all eternity. So they knew what the punishment was going to be like. Then they have absolute clarity about that. There's not like human beings where sometimes it's a little lazy for us. It was absolutely clear. The second instance is then in the second instance, Saint Thomas says, they looked at intellectually that could see the temptations, what all the other angels were going through. Every single intelligent being in order to be in the presence of God has to go through a test. And the test that the angels had is they were created with a set of perfections, but they could see higher perfections above them. And they could see that having those perfections would be actually a really good thing, but in order to have that perfection, they would have to reject their assigned task because it's not part of their nature, it's part of something else. And so when they saw that perfection, that's at that point that they had to perform an act of sacrifice, they either had to sacrifice the desire for that perfection that they saw that they would like to have in order to remain faithful to the task that God had told them that they had to do. And so, but if they were faithful to that task, what they would get is the beatific vision, which is above any perfection that they could possibly have. And so that was their actual test. So that was a created jealousy. In a sense, not in the sense that they had, they didn't have those kinds of emotions. we have, but they saw that perfection and what would be like to have it would be a wonderful thing. But they had to be willing to sacrifice that lesser created good to ultimately end up seeing God face to face, which is the greatest of the highest good, the greater good. And we can kind of return to it because that's the same problem we have of human beings, the same thing we live out every single day. But we have to sacrifice every single day in order to achieve the greater good. But they have, they saw that greater good. So that's what they saw intellectually. So they even saw Satan's temptation. And they knew, or Lucifer's temptation, and they knew that if they chose to reject their assigned task and have it and choose to just desire this thing, they were never going to get it. But just to desire it, then they knew they would be under Satan. So they saw that whole complexity and then they made their choice. And so with them, they're very different from us than human beings are. The reason God has mercy on human beings is because we're stupid. No, it's true. We, as human beings, we make decisions and then, you know, afterwards or I would stay, I shouldn't have done that. And that's why God has mercy on us. So if we're sorry for it, God will actually have mercy for us. But with the angels, they're not stupid. They know exactly what they're doing. And they know the full ramifications of it. So when they make their choice, their choice is all in. And there will becomes completely fixed on that choice, whether it's good or bad. And this is why even in session, demons will say, yeah, it was a bad choice, but I'd still do it again, because their wills become fixed in that. So they make their choice. And then the third instance, St. Thomas says is, because unlike human beings, we can make stupid choices, but then we can kind of start getting our act together later. God gives us time to work through that process. And then at a certain point, when we die, it becomes fixed. And then then he either condemns us, or he brings us into heaven. So for us, it takes us time to work out our salvation in the same policies, you know, fear and trembling work out your salvation. So it takes us time. Whereas the angels, it's a one shot deal. And so once they make that choice, there will becomes completely fixed. And so St. Thomas says in the third instance, then God levies judgment, just like all human beings have to go before Christ. And he judges us. All of them were judged by the second person, the Trinity, as to what their condemnation would actually be, or their reward in heaven. And so they're immediately damned or they're immediately taken into heaven and see God immediately. How do we know this? I mean, some of this is not in the Bible, correct? Yeah, some of it parts of it are not, but parts of it actually have to do with two forms of knowledge that the church has. The first is saints who have had mystical experiences and also just the general working out theologically of how these things actually work. The second component has to do with the collective experience of actresses for two thousand years, because my experience as an actressist is not any different from the actresses in the first century AD. And so how demons talk and what their psychology is and what they end up revealing is consistent throughout those two thousand years. So it's all of that kind of taken together. So it's theological reasoning. So if you read St. Thomas, it's all based on theological reasoning, but it's also based on a lot of scripture, but then also the mystical experiences, but then also just the church's collective experience in actually dealing with them. It's recorded information through time. Exactly. Let's go back into the fall. Okay. Did they all fall at one time? Yeah, it's all done at the instant. They'll fall in that second instance. What did that look like? Do we know? Well, scripture, the description in the book Revelation is, you know, I saw Satan fall like lightning. So there's this point and everything that shifted and changed instantaneously in the in the in the experiences and the lives of the angels. So either the you know, the the angels that did the good, there will the chose to do their assigned task. There will became fixed in the God. And then of course, they got to see God right away, but then the angels, they fell. And according to the fathers of the church, and it's actually true, by the way, in session, I've told demons, you know, I command you to consider it to weaken them. I command you to consider that the your first instance of delight that you had. Because that when they firt that joy that that delight that they had, crushes them now because it's so painful for them to consider how joyful it was in that moment. So you actually see these things kind of paying out. And but they also will some of them will actually under certain circumstances, God will compel them to reveal what their their judgment that they underwent by God. And so you find out what those actual things actually are in relationship to it. So it's this massive shift and like lightning falling. Did angels from every rank structure fall? We know from the lowest eight ranks that there were ones that fell from the owns. There is some debate about whether one fell from the the serifim or not. Thomas Aquinas says they didn't a majority of the philogen said they that from that top rank they didn't fall. But it was just the ones from Cherubim undel because there was nothing to look up to other than God. Basically. And saying for St. Thomas, it was that they saw God and their in their first inclination was to love him that they couldn't it was because of the strength of their charity or love for God that they just did what he asked. Are there still angels falling today? No. So that all the angels, since there's no more creation of any angels and since they all went through the first three instances together, none of them are falling now. So they don't. It's not like you have an angel that ends up later falling. Do we have numbers on each side? According to the interpretation of the fathers based upon what's in the book of Revelation. There's a reference where the dragon sweeps a third of the stars down by his tail. That has been interpreted universally by the patristics that is the fathers of the church and also the theologians throughout time as referring to a third of the angels fell. Can angels or deem themselves? No. Demons, I mean. Yeah. Once their will becomes fixed in evil, it's irreparable. It can never change. Do you think they regret it? You know, it reminds me of a politician. You'll remember who this is when he said, I did not have sex with that woman so and so. He regretted getting caught. He didn't regret the action. And it's the same thing with them. They have remorse in the sense of it bothers them and they hate themselves for it. And they're sad about the fact that they committed to sin and that they and that they, you know, that they're going to be down for all eternity and suffer for all eternity, but they would still do it again. In fact, I had it to him and I actually say that so I said, commanded him because I was trying to weaken this guy. I said, so let me get this straight. By the way, when I put it locally, you know, in the interview, it's very structured. I'm saying, I command you to tell the X, Y and Z. But I just said, so let me get this straight. You were created to have the beat of vision. Yes. And you're created with this phenomenal perfection and the ability to see this. Yes. And you saw that beauty in the first instance. Yes. And you knew that if you were faithful, you would enjoy these things. Yes. And you knew if you weren't faithful that you would suffer this. And this, yeah. And you, you're suffering this now. Yes. And you do it again. Yes. 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How did they gain access to our mind? Okay, so the basic way it works is they're very nature is designed, and their wheels are structured in such a way that they can move matter by their nature. And so that means that they can move things within us, because part of our brain or intellect is material, not all of it, the part of it is actually material, the brain basically. And so they can actually act upon it. Let's go back to human sacrifice a little bit. I mean, spent a couple days there, we talked about my past experiences, we've done some serious work here, and I've realized that the battle is in your mind for your soul. That's right. And I mean, Christ himself was human sacrifice, that's right. And so if the battle is within your mind, and demons have access to your mind, and angels have access to your mind, and suicide is a human sacrifice, abortions, a human sacrifice, going to war is human sacrifice. I mean, everything seems to come down to human sacrifice, that's right. Why is the human sacrifice so important? What does it represent? Why is it happening? Thomas Aquinas makes an observation, which is right along what you were saying. He said, "The ultimate thing that God wants from every intelligent creature," so this would include angels and men, he said, "The ultimate thing that he wants from every intelligent creature is the sacrifice of his will, that is ours, to his will, to God's will." And the reason being has to do with this. So I'll explain the theological structure of it, and then I'm going to talk about a case I had that we all revolved specifically around sacrifice. So in every sacrifice, there's three components. We've learned God taught us what sacrifice was in the Old Testament. So with the Jews, he said, "This is exactly how you're supposed to do it." So in relationship to God, sacrifice, which we offered him, has to follow a very distinctive structure, because if any one of these elements are missing, it's not a true sacrifice. And so he said, "This is exactly how you're supposed to do it." Christ himself also said, when he did the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Monday, Thursday, he said, "Do this in commemoration of me." So he's being very specific about how they're supposed to do it. Okay. And that's because if we don't, human beings are stupid, and we're going to mess it up. So the first component is of a sacrifice as an offatory. And basically what the offatory is, it's a setting apart of what I'm offering to God apart from me and apart from profane or sacred or profane use. And that has two components. The first is, there has to be some good that I have that I'm willing to be separated from. This was the line of demarcation between the sacrifice of Abel and the sacrifice of Cain. Cain Abel gave the best that he had. And so he retained nothing for himself in that process, whereas Cain kept the best for himself and gave God a sacrifice as something that was good, but not his best. And as a result of that, the second part of it is, so you have to be willing to be separated from the particular good and you have to be willing to give it to God. In that very process, you are actually achieving the greater good, okay? That is a key element of sacrifice that in us being willing to be separated from the lesser good and giving it to God, a greater good is accomplished. And just in that process itself, we become better as human beings, just in the offering of the, just in that offering of it to him. And so, but there has to be that perfect willing to detach from that lesser good in order to the greater good. So let me give you an example. The guy who goes off to war, the lesser good ironically is his own life. The greatest he's willing to offer his life for what, for our good, the common good of the country. And in that process, the greater good that he achieves in that, the excellence that he achieves in that is perfection and justice. And as a result of that, he gets honor. So that honor is one of the greatest things that human beings can achieve. It's better to die in honor than to die in dishonor, for example. And so he has to be willing to give up his own life for the sake of achieving the greater good. So that, offatory component is really key. So you have to be willing to give the lesser good in order to achieve the greater good. That's the first element. The second thing is, there is the slaying of the victim. So if you look at Christ, let's back up in Christ, his offatory was not my will, but thine be done. So he did it at the mount, all of us. He was willing to offer up his own life for the sake of the greater good was our salvation. And so he was willing to offer that up. And so that's why he told God, not my will, but thine be done. Okay. So that's the offatory. Then there's the slaying of the victim. So in Christ case, that's the passion and death of our Lord. And then the last part of it is the consummation, actually, the, the victim has to be completely consumed in the process. Because if it's not, then there's still something we're retaining for ourselves. So the person has to be willing to completely die to themselves entirely. And how do we know that Christ did that? Well, he himself even sent it right before he died, consummato mist. It is, it is consummated. What did that actually mean? It meant that Isaiah talks about this, St. Paul also talks about it, that the Messiah had to go through a series of sufferings in order to merit for us the what was necessary for the perfection in all aspects of our lives. And so he was, for example, the reason he wore the crown of thorns is in order to undo Adam's sin in relationship to eating the fruit when he should not have. And then God gave him the punishment of you have to work in thorns and in pain. So Christ, the Christ's suffering was to undo all of that. Okay. So the sacrifice then basically means that in the end, the reason God wants sacrifice from all of us is because he wants for us to achieve the greater good and not be satisfied with the lesser good. He wants to, that's a, it's a call to the greater good. That being said, so I had this case where the, it, we kept revolving around our lady under the title of mirror of justice. Now the reason that the mirror of justice, the reason that was so key and the reason it had a correlation to sacrifice is because of the fact that under the virtue of justice is the virtue of religion. But justice is where I render someone they're due. So if you, if I say, Hey, go move my lawn, I'll pay you 50 bucks. If you move the lawn, I, and justice, I have to give you 50 bucks. Okay. Underneath that is the virtue of religion where we render God is due. Okay. What did God do for us? He creates this. He keeps some being, everything that we do can do all of that. He caused. And so literally there is nothing in us to which we don't owe back to him. So ultimately, we have to render ourselves in perfection before him. That's our goal. Okay. So, okay, so that being the case, then in relationship to justice, underneath justice is the virtue of religion or anything virtue of religion or for acts. But one of those acts is to offer sacrifice to God because that sacrifice is doing what? Giving the best that we have. So as I mentioned, we have to render back to him everything. What is perfect? Well, what do we do in order to show that as a sign? We render back to him the best in us, the thing that we love the most, we have to give back to him. Okay. And so that's what he's ultimately looking for. Now, by the way, it doesn't mean that in that process, when we give it to him, that he doesn't reward us or that he doesn't take care of the thing that we offer to him, etc. It just means that that's what he wants us to give it to him. Okay. In this case, so any time this demon would manifest when I was saying mass, because we'd start the sessions with a mass. Anytime the demon would manifest, it's because God had told him he had to tell me something. So during this mass, Biel's Bubba's didn't title, which is another name for Satan. He manifests during mass. I finished mass knowing I can't. So then we start the sessions as soon as Biel's Bubba manifested. I said to him, he told me, he told you you had to tell me something, didn't he? He was so angry that he could not even look at me. He was so angry. So then I said to him, shut up. You are not permitted to talk. Now there's a reason I did that. One is because I don't want him telling me based upon when he thinks it's time. He has to realize I'm the guy in charge, and a lot of that is just to maintain the authority structure because they're constantly trying to get into the driver's seat. The second thing is, it's normal spiritual warfare. This is a stout adversary and so just as we would in normal warfare, you would just bomb them for a while first to soften up the situation, then you'd send in the ground troops. He's the same way. If you try and ask him the question right off the bat, he's going to hold tight and you're not going to get anywhere. So you don't want to send the troops in first. You want to bomb him first. What I did is I basically punished him for 45 minutes and at the end of that 45 minutes I said to him, I said, "You have something you have to tell me." And he said, "He told me I have to tell you my nature." Now what that means is, we already knew what his assigned task was. It was to enlighten both our lady and our minds. Lucifer's original assigned task. The reason he was called Lucifer is because that means it comes from the bat and words "Lucifer" which means to bear light. His job was to enlighten our minds to get us to see the necessity and the good in offering sacrifice. That was his original assigned task. And so when he told me I have to tell you my nature, I said, "Let's hear it." Now when they chose to reject their assigned task, you have to remember that's who they are. And that meant that in their choice it was a perfect act of self hatred. And they refused to do that function that God had told me to do. So what they chose then is the opposite of that assigned task. So what he does is to force sacrifice, but this is where it becomes key. He just looks at me deadpan, which is because an indicator he's probably telling the truth. And then as we started unpacking it later, theologically realized this is probably true. Because some people will say, "Well, demons lie all the time, but not always. Sometimes they're compelled to tell the truth." And he said, "I convince people, so this is part of the cherubin. He's part of the cherubin, which is an intellectual function." He says, "I convince people so in us it's an intellectual conviction that he can put in our minds. I convince people that they cannot be separated from the particular good." Okay, that's, and so I stood back and I said, "That's a whopper." Because he knew, I knew the structure of sacrifice. To remember, in offatory, you have to be going to be separated from a particular good in order to give it to God. And that means when he convinces people, "I can't be separated from this thing." That's how he subversed the remainder part of the sacrifice where we're willing to dot ourself all the way to the end. And so he knew that's, so I realized that's how he ended sacrifice. And then he just looks at me and says, "It's how I took Adam and Eve out. It's how I'm taking your church out. So I took your government out." He said, "It's at the root of every sin and every defect that every human being has." And later he said, "It's the cause and mediocrity in every single human being." Which is absolutely true. Because in virtue, when we're striving for virtue, which is the greater good to perfect ourselves in a something particular aspect, which is the greater good, we have to be willing to be separated from certain things. Just to stick temperance. If I want to gain temperance, to master the virtue of fasting, for example, I have to be willing to put aside the lesser good of the pleasure I get out of food in order to achieve this greater good. Makes sense. When do they gain access to our minds? We talk about the innocence of children and the pure love that they can give us. Yeah. And then at some point in time everybody loses it. That's right. It's ultimately when God allows it. So in the spiritual warfare, there's kind of a misunderstanding. People have this idea that demons get you to just a morade and do whatever they want. When St. Peter said, "Be sober and watchful for the lion goes around seeking someone to devour." It doesn't mean he gets to hammer anybody he wants. It means he's constantly watching us. That's the going around. He's constantly watching to see where the weaknesses are and where he'd take us out. And then he might test our probe and if God lets him go in, then he goes in. It's, but it means that the spiritual warfare, the entire battlefield is completely controlled by Christ. So even the demons can't do anything in relationship to us unless Christ gets into permission. So Christ is the one who allows them access at certain points. And the reason he allows us access to us is to test us. Will you sacrifice for me? Is it through flaws in the world like pornography? Yeah. And then that creates some type of a desire. That's right. A disorder desire for it. Yeah. Part of it also has to do with the fact that demons can actually use that to inspire other people to expose other people or kids or something like that, to things that are evil. I've actually had a case where the demons would drive people around this woman in order to victimize her so they can actually do that type of thing can happen. But it's not that common. Usually what they'll do is they'll use other people to introduce bad things into the person's life and then the person because of fallen human nature. We have a proclivity towards like, let's just take pornography, we have a proclivity towards what we call concupacence, which is a desire for pleasure that's immoderate and disorder. And so if we don't do things and this is where parental formation inverts you and getting in the sacraments and things like that aids the children in being faithful to that so that they can actually combat that particular aspect of our fall or original sin that we kind of inherited as a result of that, then what the demons do is they can play on that disordered inclinations that we have and then start just driving it. Do you think that successful exorcisms could be miracles? I mean, and the reason I ask is we talked about the last several weeks of my life and some of the things that I've experienced here that I don't want to go into yet maybe at another time, but you know with what I did experience and how real it was in the end no matter how terrifying it was, it only strengthened my faith in Christ and God and the Holy Spirit immensely. Yeah, immensely. One of the things that you learned as an exorcist is what Christ said you, you know, he said count, he's good, he's talking to the apostles, count yourself as useless instruments. When you're as an exorcist, you can pray and pray and pray until the cows come home, but if Christ doesn't do step in and actually cause the liberation, nothing happens. The demons I've actually said to me is you can't make me do anything, which is actually true, as a human being, I can't make any demon do anything, but then my retort to them is but he can. And so he uses us as instruments to basically afflict the demon to punish him to a certain point. And then it's at that point that Christ steps in and Christ causes the liberation. So one time I was asked in a public venue, how many people have you liberated? And I said, none. But I've been in the presence of liberations, and I've done my work as an exorcist and then Christ is the one who liberates. And so that liberation is both an act of mercy, but also one of the things that people very often don't quite understand about this thing, possession is the worst thing, actually possession is not the worst thing. The worst thing is sent, mortal sin, specifically where you've committed such a grave sin that you're under the power of the demons from your from a legal point of view, whereas possession is not necessarily the worst thing. In fact, possession, especially when it's been a kind of protracts for any length of time, it actually, the people become a holder through the battle, through the struggle, it's like a guy who goes off to, you know, there's a big difference between a soldier who's never seen combat in one who has. And so this is the, and there was the guy who's seen the combat, he's much more fashioned, much more honed than the guy that maybe went through a lot of good training and could be a good soldier, but he just didn't have that opportunity. Well, it's the same thing here. When people go through just the brutal battle and the type of thing, the amount of sacrifice and self denial and everything that they have to go through and the virtue that they have to achieve in order to conquer this thing is quite admirable. Do angels have access to our mind? They do. God permitting. So the angels can do actually two things in relationship to us. The first is they can put an image in our imagination and even put a perspective on that image, just as the demons can do the same thing. So the demons can not only just put an image in your imagination because we get these your get-thoughts where did this come from, right? But they can even put a perspective on like this, it'd be really good, right? And this is why sometimes people will come to me like normal man, normal heterosexual man will come to me and they'll say, I had this bizarre experience where I was in this situation and I had this thought of pedophilia and I had this kind of inclination of the good. I said, well, that's not your, that's not your junk, right? That's not you. The demons can make anything look appealing. One exorcist contacted me recently because he had kind of gone through that type of thing. He was working with this one woman who would bite any stretch of the imagination. It was not good looking whatsoever. And when she walked in the door during one of the sections, the demons skewed his perceptions and his relationship to it and he said he looked at her and he felt this inclination as she's just beautiful. And then he realized intellectually he knew He's like, I ain't true. And so he just stopped, did some prayers, broke it. And then when he looked at her again, she says, ugly as sin, right? So the point being is they can get that perspective. The angels can also do the same thing because perceptions are either in congruity with reality or they're not. For example, let's just take transgenderism. People's perceptions about who they are may or may not be, if you're, you know, if you're a normal heterosexual male, they say, hey, I'm a male and this is my, well, then my perceptions are in congruity with reality. But if I'm some dude who thinks he's a woman, your perceptions aren't in congruity with reality. And so demons are constantly trying to put perspectives on it that either exaggerate or skew or falsify your perception of reality, whereas the good angels can actually do the opposite they can put perspectives on the imagination. And then and so that you get a greater perception of this is the truth of the matter. This is the reality of it. So one of the ways that you'll notice that is you'll get a bit of clarity in a situation all of a sudden you'll see the perspective and realize, okay, that's the, that's how this is actually done. The one thing that angels can do, which demons never do, is the angels can then, so there's three parts we're into, like I'm going to go into all three, but there's two parts that I want to talk about. The first is the brain. That's the image part. And they can put a perspective. They can affect that. But then there's a part of our intellect that's entirely material. And the reason we know that, for example, is when we die, then people in heaven, you know, you hear about these with people who actually die and they actually go through a judgment and they might see Christ and that type of thing, they're intellect is functioning independently of their body. So we know there's a part of the intellect that's in part of that. There's also certain operations that we perform, like the ability to self reflect upon ourselves. That we know that there's a part of our intellect that's impurely immaterial that can function independently of matter. This is why animals even apes don't have that same kind of self reflection. Even when they see themselves in the mirror, it's kind of a fascination to them because but that's all at the level of the material. But with human beings, we have this. But the angels can actually, that immaterial part of us has the ability to make judgments about things that something's right or true or that type of thing. How do we know that? We can have, I'll give you an example, a guy, his wife, when he first gets married, his perspective on her is she's wonderful, she's lovely, I love her, she's to such a great wife, she's beautiful, et cetera, and his intellectual judgment is the same as that. But then what can happen is, is that over the course of the marriage, bad things happen and so his perspective on her begins to change and then also does his judgment changes. But he can make a choice to change his judgment about that. If he starts thinking his wife is really bad and nasty, she may or may not be. He can start making a choice, if you know what, I'm going to start, I'm not going to judge her that she's that bad. I think she's ultimately a woman of goodwill, it's just that I'm suffering a relationship to it. That means I got to shore up stuff on my part. So I can make a judgment or I can make a choice to start looking at her, judging her differently. So that's one of the intense, okay, why is that important? Because angels can strengthen, it's called illumination, they can illuminate the mind that immaterial part, so that when we make that act of judgment, we see it with much greater clarity and strength and depth. And so they can enlighten our minds and so you can ask them, you know, give me good images and then help me to see, help me to enlighten my mind and relationship to it. The fathers of the church actually say it was the angels who taught the Greeks philosophy. People like Aristotle and Plato and that's why there's such a radical shift in their philosophy from the materialists to Plato and then to Aristotle. What rank structure of the angels is putting images and clarity into our mind? Primarily those of the rank of angels, the various lowest. The guardian angel. The guardian angels. Archangels? The Archangels can at time, they can also do it as well, it depends. There are certain people, according to the fathers of the church, that their stature in life is so important that God intends for their particular life that he actually, not only that he actually will assign angels that are higher in the higher rank because what rank or what, how high in the higher rank of angels, your angel is directly proportioned, how important you're supposed to be in human history, they say. And so, but there are certain people that God will actually assign an archangel to guard them at least while they're fulfilling that role. So like, people in positions of political power are generally considered that priests, bishops, that type of thing are given a guardian angel, an archangel in order for relationship to that. If they put, if they, if there's a particular function that they're going to play in relationship to us as human beings, it's extremely important. They come from the rank of archangels. 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And so as a result of that and they know that he that he was the Messiah that was Brown to come, that he was going to be the one that was incarnate, so they know not from faith anymore because they lost their faith, but they know just by deductive reason that this is the true religion, all other religions have human beings who started them. Whereas Christ, who's God is the only one who started this religion and they saw it. And so they know the rest of the other religions don't, don't wash. And so you can, you know, they'll be as they gain, as the demons gain greater and greater control over the world and as evil becomes more and more in place, there's two factors that come into play. The first is that demons move people to punish the Christians, which we saw in administrations even in this country when they were going after the Christians and then you look at these people and you can tell these people were not leaving good lives that were persecuting the Christians. So the demons will inspire the people to go after the Christians. We also see this in relationship to, you know, certain religions attacking the Christians in different countries and that type of thing. So you see that. The other part of the dynamic has to do with the fact that St. Thomas talks about it and a question in the summa, but there's a structure to how human beings go from pursuing and seeing the good to actually pursuing things that are evil. And it basically go, it's a process in which we have natural inclinations to things that are good. And so, for example, he says he is an example. A guy recognizes it fornications immoral, right, so he recognizes that. But then Bessie Sue walks in, and she's just gorgeous. And so. He ends up falling with Bessie Sue, and he keeps, same time as he thinks that it's, you know, he kind of gives in a lot of his, it's okay in this one instance. And then, but he keeps hanging around Bessie Sue, so he keeps falling with her, and eventually he starts thinking that both fornication isn't wrong, you know. And then, as he keeps fornicating, then what he actually thinks is that well, no fornication's actually a good thing. And then what happens next? Well, people who tell me fornication's bad, they're evil people, because I know fornication's good. That is the exact progression we actually saw in this country. The greatest generation knew the fornication was immoral, but they started fornicating behind the scenes, and that's where the fornication really started. And how do we know? Because when the hippie generation started the fornication openly, they didn't stop them, because hey, well, can't town, we did that, because we did it, right? So it goes from, no, they can't do it, but they fell from time to time too. Okay, now they were openly doing it. Then, by the time you get to the 80s and 90s, you should live with your girlfriend before you get married, which is a good thing, right? Because you should finally get to find out if it's going to work. And then what's the last thing? Now you have people who, when you say, hey, you need to be chased, the guys need to stop doing this, they get attacked. And so, in addition to the demons driving this, now you have people whose lives are so disordered that what they see is good is bad, and what it has actually, they see is bad is actually good. And so they see, and this is why we actually see Christ mention this, He says, there will come a time when they will actually believe that by eradicating the people who follow Him, eradicating, they're actually doing the will of God. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting. You know, I mean, I think all religions have been persecuted at one point, another through time. Yeah. If you, if you talk about Islam, you're a bigot. Right. If you, I mean, that's the same with multiple religions. If you talk about Judaism, you'll be ostracized from everything. That's right. It is the, it is, it is the ultimate no no. Right. And I don't, I, I don't understand. I mean, wire Christians accepting this. You know, in all the other religions, you know, you, you see, you see this righteous anger. That's right. You know, if, if, if, if they're religion or they're people are disparaged with Christianity, and I'm guilty of it too, we, we, we, we let them, we let it slide. Why is that? I think we let it slide because we're conditioned. Yes. I think that's it. We're conditioned to actually believe that when Christ said turn the other cheek that we just let people get away with whatever they want. And that's not actually the case. You, basically when he said he turned the other cheek or, you know, you have to forgive even those who do those bad things and give you, yeah, you have to forgive them. But that doesn't mean that you extend the effects of that forgiveness to them. Because that might be bad for them, St. Thomas says. And so for example, he says, you know, you know, you should have charity, you should have love of God and love of neighbor for the sake of God for everybody. But that doesn't mean that I'm going to necessarily show the effects of that love to somebody because then it would confirm them and their sin and it's actually going to be bad for them. And so what's happened is as Christians have gone to excess and just thinking, you know, we just have to let people walk all over us and that's not what Christ was saying. In fact, we have an obligation to fight for and to protect the glory of Christ Himself, Christ the King. We have an obligation to fight for him. And the fact that we actually don't do that is based upon this kind of this effeminate unwillingness to battle because we think it's, it's, you know, we're just being charitable or we're just being, we're trying to be Christian and be merciful and look at sometimes being merciful to somebody is actually bad for them. And so we have to, we have, God is going to be merciful when we meet those conditions always. But in relationship to us as human beings, we can't extend the immersive people if they're doing evil and a hormonal fending God. I mean, do you think this is just going to continue to get worse? I do. What can people do? I mean, in your in your mind or your idea, how do Christians, you know, defend their faith? I mean, it's been, it's been, it's being ripped out of government. It's this country was found on Christianity. It's, it's, it's being ripped out of schools. Many people are offended if you even bring it up in school. However, you know, all these other ideologies, you know, we, we're, we're forced to comply with LGBTQ, Islam, duty of all of them. If they're all accepted, except Christianity. I think there's two things. The first thing is is that a lot of Christians don't know their faith well. And so a lot of times they get mopped up and a lot of times they don't, they don't fight. Or if they do fight, they fight badly because they don't know what they're doing. And they don't know how to disarm these people. I'm thinking of a particular bishop and his interview with Ben Shapiro, unlike Ben, that was a missed opportunity because he really could have set the records straight on a few things. So in addition to, they have to know what they're talking about and have to know. This stuff, they also have to know the other religions to know where they're wrong, but then it will be able to see this. And also these other ideologies have to know why these things are actually bad. But then the second part of it is they just have to man up. You know, they just basically have to say, okay, look at it. You know, there's two things that I think they have to do in relationship to that is they have to be willing to suffer other people's, you know, chaffing it then, etc. It reminds me of the allegory of the cave in Plato where people in the cave see these projections and think that's reality and that's not even reality, reality is outside. So the guy tried to drag them outside and they're chaffing with them the whole way they're dragging them outside. And even if they get outside and they see the truth, they want to go back to this, right? It's the same kind of a thing that you see here. They're going to chaff you. So you just have to stay the course and be willing to tell the truth. The second thing is we have to be willing to wield the axe and by that, I mean, we have to be willing to clear the deck. We have to start telling people, oh, I'm offended by that, I don't care. I'm more concerned that you know the truth than your emotions are heard. We have to stop allowing people to follow their emotions. We have to stop following our own emotions in relationship. We have to be willing to follow, we're willing to follow reason. And it doesn't mean you go around just to be an obnoxious, but it means that we have to be willing to fight with people and if they just say, well, I'm offended, well, you know, it's tough. That's just life. That's just reality. If you want to know the truth, you're willing to follow the truth. And the other side of it is that is the hypocrisy of it all. We have to recognize that when we give into these people, we're giving into their hypocrisy. Because these people say, well, you're offensive to me, what you believe is offensive to me. Well, so is what you believe is offensive to me. And I think it's offensive to God. So we just have to say, okay, well, then what we have to do is we have to be willing to fight the truth, fight for the truth, be willing to take the beating for it in order to actually achieve what's in order to clear the deck. Well, there's one reason why I tell people they have to be willing to do this. Have you ever noticed that nobody will talk about something, nobody will say anything until one guy gets up there and says, this is a bunch of bunk and here's why. It makes it safe for everybody else. Yes. He breaks the ice. I know a couple guys like that. Yeah. Yeah. But it breaks the ice. And then from there, it becomes a legitimate topic of discussion and people can actually start talking about it. But that's what we have to be willing to do. We have to be willing to break the ice or wield the action relationship to this because once the truth gets out there, then it starts dispelling the darkness and people start seeing and people that are normally a good will will start signing off to it and say, yeah, I actually believe that. So I mean, we actually see this even, you know, just recently, even just politically, you were never allowed to talk or mention Christian or whatsoever, but now what's this talk about? Now a lot of people are talking about it. So it's that one guy's got to break the ice and so people have to be willing to be that one guy, but I tell you guys, you may or may not be that guy. You have to make sure a that you have the virtue to do it to sustain the beating and you also have to be the guy that knows what he's talking about and don't presume, you know, you got to really know. I appreciate that. So if you're willing to find the truth and follow the truth, then you should be willing to defend the truth. That's right. Break the ice no matter what the consequences. That's right. Personal cost. Back to one of the points is you have to be willing to be separated from the lesser good in order to pursue the greater good. Guys have to be willing to be to take the beating to be separated from the comfort and the adulation of other people that have to be willing to be separated from that in order to pursue the good regardless of the personal cost, which is the greater good. Can we communicate with angels? Yes. We can. How would we do that? So I think before I answer that, let me answer how actual angels communicate, with monks themselves. So basically the way it works is because they don't have bodies, so we communicate because I think it's something that I make a set of sounds and then you hear the sounds and then you interpret it based upon that. So it's a physical kind of communication, but because they don't have bodies, that means that their communication is purely intellectual, so it's a kind of a telepathy. And so the way that that works is one angel, thinks of the other angel and thinks himself, I want to communicate with that particular angel. Now if you remember when I was saying earlier, God infuses the particular things as they're happening in the minds of the angels as they're happening, and so the angel that's infused in the other angel's mind, that angel so and so wants to communicate with you. Then if his, just like with us, we can either listen to somebody or not, he can, if he moves, he uses his will to turn towards that angel in his mind, then then they, then [BLANK_AUDIO] you'll have to do is start then he can start communicating what he wants to directly with them. Okay. So that basically means that they can use their mind to communicate with them. That's not any different from then very nature of prayer. In fact, with the definition of prayers lifting the mind and heart to God. So we're actually redirecting our mind to him. And then when we do that and then through our prayer that we communicate with him what we want, then when we do that, so obviously God knows all our thoughts anyway. But that's how we actually communicate with God is just by directing our thoughts to him directly and communicating him with our thoughts. We can do it verbally as well. Is verbally stronger than thought? Yeah, it is in the sense that it's better for us and so God tends to, it doesn't mean that God doesn't listen to the mental prayers or even if you're talking to the angels. I mean, I'm sorry, did you just say God does not listen to mental prayers? No, he does. He does. He listens to them. But a lot of times when we vocalize it, it helps our faculties become more focused and it's a stronger prayer as a result. And so that's why a lot of times there's also certain kinds of prayers. He just wants done vocally anyway. And because he made us his human beings and made us with the ability to communicate in that fashion, he also wants us to do that from time to time. On the other hand, there's also certain kinds of prayer that you want to be entirely mental. Okay. With the angels, then what we do is it's the same kind of a mechanism that they have. It's just that we, under certain circumstances, there are permitted to communicate directly to us so that we hear their thoughts, but that's extremely rare. But if we direct our thoughts to them, the same mechanism occurs. So if I direct my thoughts, say to my guardian angel and ask him to do something. In fact, I can tell a story behind that. But there, if I tell my guardian angel, or if I mentally think of my guardian angel and tell him, "Han, why don't you do X, Y, or Z?" Then it's the same mechanism that was with the angels. That's infused in his mind that I want to talk to him. And then if he, when he turns his mind to me, he hears my thoughts. Otherwise, he can't get access to my thoughts. He can cause things in me, but he can't read them. He can't know what I'm thinking unless either he's causing it, or he can kind of decipher it. And he's probably thinking about X, like you can with your wife, you know, you can figure out what she's thinking just by how she's reacting. But they actually, they can hear our thoughts in that actual process. So to give an example, I had a case where the woman was possessed. I was in an airport. It was just about to get on to the plan. I was in line to at the gate. And the woman I was working with calls me, and she was possessed. And she's calls me, she says, "Hey, I'm pan'd, and I can't move." And so, which they had done to her before. And then she hands the phone to the assistance. Because anytime I do a session, there's always lay assistance that are present. And they said, "Yeah, they took the phone." They said, "Yeah, we can't bludger. We can't move her." And I'm like, "Well, I'm standing, I'm literally handing the students or whatever the gate woman, my boarding pass." So I just said, "Well, I can't do it now. My flight's only about an hour. I'll call you in about an hour." And so then I hung up. And then I just mentally said to the guardian angel of my priesthood, go and take, go and help her. And then I just got on to the plane. A hour flight later, I get off the plane. And then I call her back and I said, "You know, you're still pan'd. She says, "Yes, I'm still pan'd." So then I just said a couple of binding prayers, boom, the demon let loose for right away. And then she just hangs up on me. And she says, "I gotta go." She hangs up. About five minutes later, she calls back and she says, "Well, the reason I hung up is because I hadn't been at the bathroom in five hours." I'm like, "Okay, that's fair enough." And then she said, "And by the way, did you send the guardian angel of your priesthood to me?" And I said, "Yeah, how did you know?" He said, "He appeared to me and held my hand during this whole episode." So the fact that I was able to mentally communicate that with my guardian angel is an indicator that they can hear our thoughts. And so we can ask them. The way the guardian angel's work is their involvement in our life is based on two things. One, what God tells them to do, "Hey, do you need to do this? This or this?" Or, "I don't want you to protect them or this circumstance because I want them to go through this test or I want them to suffer this for the sake of their soul or whatever the case is." So God communicates that to them. But the primary way that they get involved in our lives is by asking them. So the more we ask them and the more we invoke their intercession and working in our lives, the more they become involved. And so sometimes people will say, "Well, my guardian angel doesn't do anything. I'm like, well, how much do you communicate with the guy?" So if you communicate with them every single day, then you'll find that they'll be actually more involved in your life. Now, sometimes people will say, "Well, how do I know my guardian angel is even involved in my life?" And it's very simple. Because they love God and they see his divine plan and relationship to us as human beings, they know that God's will is for us to live a normal life where we get to make free choices. That's what God wants for us. And that means that our guardian angel is active. It means he's protecting us so that there's nothing trying to skew us or block us or do those things would cause our bad choices. And so we're causing problems or difficulties in our lives. That's how you actually know. So in other words, the more natural our life seems, that's actually an indicator the more the angels are actually involved. 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No. And the reason I say that is I think there's some things are pretty old for it and sometimes people know, okay, I think that was my guardian angel. I mean, I think that there's some on the more kind of extreme kind of levels. But I think that most people is even understanding of what is good and bad and how and how the angels even communicate with them and how the demons are involved in their life. There's so much confusion out there and so little understanding of this thing that people actually believe that you know, oh, I have these amorous feelings for this person. It must be my guardian angel. No, demons can give me amorous feelings for people. So you have to be careful about that. Whereas the demons are never going to give you inclinations to want to love God more, to be more virtuous and things like that. So there are principles of discernment about how you can kind of sort these things out, but I don't think most people know them. I had a, I think I had an encounter with an angel several years ago. Then I think that's what honestly love big a Christ. And it is the only other time in my life where I really felt that there was a true battle for my soul happening in real time. Right. And it was a very dark part of my life. And I basically come to the, I just, I had this intuitive feeling in my heart that I was, I was transgenderism was really bothering me at the time. Right. A lot of other things that were going on in the world and I felt like maybe I was one of the only people speaking out about it. And it was just running rampant through the country. And so I had this internal battle in my, in my, in my head happening. And basically it was me convincing myself that maybe I'm wrong here, you know, maybe, maybe I feel like I'm the only one speaking out against it. I feel like maybe I should just surrender. What's the point? Why fight this? Why speak out against it? Why do any of that? Because everybody appears to be for the celebrities that I respected. Started speaking out for it. People I never would have expected speaking out about drag shows in front of toddlers. You know, and all these things, and these are people that I never would have expected to do this. And then one week later after they announced that they're all for this, they get a massive TV show deal. You know, and so I think I know what that is. But at the time, I didn't see that deal. And so I felt like I was surrendering my soul to evil. And I was just like, "What, why even? Who cares? Just give up." And I'd gotten to that point where I was almost there. And we had walked into this, my wife and I had walked into this place we were vacationing in Sedona, Arizona. And there was a, we walked through the gate guards. You know, there was arm guards there. There were arming the property or the guarding the property. And I'd seen, I've been there for a week. I'd seen all these guys. A lot of them watch the show. They'd say, "Hi." You know, and this was the last night I was there. And I walked through the gate. And there's this old, older gentleman in there. I think he said he was a, a force Vietnam veteran or something. And he was starting trying to talk to me. I didn't want to talk to him. I was, like I just told you, I was in a pretty dark place. And my wife stopped to talk to him. I'd never seen this guy. Been there for a week. I know that I pay attention to security because of my background. I'd never seen this guy at all, ever. And so I'm, I'm kind of posturing, like I don't want to talk to you. I'm looking at him over my shoulder. My wife stops. I turn and I square up to him. He immediately read my mind from front to back. And he said, I only really remember the first thing that he said because it scared me that he was inside my head. And he said, you don't need to worry about all this transgenderism going on with the kids and just human in general. That's not your battle. And then he went on and he started talking about, he said something about China. Because China was really in my head because that was when the spy balloons traversed the United States. Road from Washington to Florida or South Carolina, wherever. And he started going into that. And I just looked at this guy in the eyes and I was like, how are you inside of my head? And then the whole series of other events happened within minutes right after that. And that's basically what saved my soul and brought me to Christ. And so what I want to ask you is their possibility that that was my guardian angel or maybe an archangel? Yes, it can be actually. Usually when you see those kinds of experiences which are not normally explained, one of the other things that you'll notice is you'll never be able to find that guy again. So that's one of the indicators. It's a very similar story to a priest who the first pastor I was under, he had to go to anoint somebody in a building. And when he got there, this six foot big, burly police officer was there and said, you can't go in there, father. And he just says, well, I have to have got your noises. No, you can't go in leave. And so the priest walks around the corner and then says, no, I got to go do it. So he turns back around. That police officer was nowhere to be found. He asked the police department. They'd never had any of that guy on there. But while he had walked around the corner and came back, two people were shot in the building. So that it's the same kind of a thing. They'll, they sometimes intervene in such dramatic ways in order to correct our paths so that we don't end up going down the wrong path. Why don't they do this more often? Why didn't they do this to the celebrity? Well, part of it has to do with or maybe they did. And maybe they did. Yeah, I think some of it is also, it's how much involvement do we want to get them in our lives? I mean, do they, do they? If the guardian angels appear to put an even listen to them? So it's largely a matter of, as I mentioned, there's certain things that God tells them. They should tell the guardian angels what they need to do. But God's will for us is for us to get them involved in our lives. You know, I've also heard that if you're in the presence of an angel, it's terrifying would be the wrong word, but it is just over overpowering sensation that that no human being could fathom. Is there any truth to that? There might be certain experiences of people historically that would account for those kinds of things. But generally speaking, angels aren't that overt and they tend to be, they tend to be much more subtle in their inner presence. I mean, your guardian angel is watching you all the time, to keep watch over you. And from time to time, putting those stars in your mind and that type of thing to help guide you and that type of thing. So they have a lot of presence to us that's not going to be that dramatic. Do you have any other examples of human beings and encountering angels? I mean, we hear miraculous things with with with with car wrecks and the car has been lifted off a body or or save them or yeah, I mean, I've heard those kinds of stories to another story that a priest friend of mine had a parishioner who she was very elderly. And so there was a there was a woman who was like 17 who would take her to mass every day. But the 17 year old didn't have her driver's license in the 80 year old woman did. But she was very elderly. So they went to mass and when they came back out, the elderly woman says, I can't, I just can't hardly move my arms. We're going to have to pray to Saint Raphael to to come in and to drive the car for us. So the older woman literally said a prayer to Saint Raphael. The next thing you know, the car starts up turns and then goes all the way to their house shuts off. There was I'll admit that when I was younger, I was not the best kind of an individual. So one time I got I got pretty schnaffered. Right. So I don't see that. This was long before I got my act together, but I got pretty schnaffered. I was at this friend of mine's house, which lived about 20 miles from where my parents lived. And I mean, I was on the verge of blacking out. Got in my truck, started driving home. Then I mean, all I remember is getting in the truck and telling him, no, I'm going to be all right. I'd start driving away. The next thing I remember is pulling into my house, my parents house. I'm convinced that was my guardian angel because there's no way. I mean, I literally blacked out for that little distance. Wow. Yeah. So they do, I mean, the tells you, you know, you know, those of us who are trying to be good have had bad past sometimes too, but you just have to make sure that you're trying to do everything you can to get the angels, your guardian angels, especially, but all the angels too involved in your life. And there's not just our own personal guardian angels. There's guardian angels of families, towns, countries, churches, those types of things. And so corporations, if a certain size, there's just God created a number of angels. And so you can also pray to the guardian angels of your children. Hey, make sure that Johnny, you know, who Johnny in to do this, that, and that empowers them to actually be able to go and do that more frequently. I mean, I actually have another example that just popped in my head. I mean, several, several years ago, over a decade ago, I had a suicide attempt. And same thing, I was hammered blacked out. Yeah. Don't remember how I got home. And reclined my, I don't remember doing this. I reclined my seed in my garage with the car running. Yeah. And when I woke up in the morning, I woke up in my room, my entire, I lived in a, in a townhome. And my entire townhome smelled like gasoline or some type of fuel. Woke up, ran downstairs. So on my pistol on the couch, a pistol that I never, I don't carry every day. So I think maybe there, maybe there was two attempts, or I was thinking about doing it twice. Right. Because I would have never accessed that pistol. Especially three or four o'clock in the morning when I've just tied on on. Right. I go out to my garage. And the door handles like a little bit like the door was a little hot to the touch. And I thought, holy shit, there's a fire in there or something. And I'm, open the door. But before I open the door, I had made the decision that if I open the door, I'm probably going to get blown to smithereens because all the fresh oxygen is going to rush in. Oh, yeah. Blow me away. So I've made that three times. I think I've made the decision to die, to kill myself. I went in the garage and I saw my Audi with the receipt, with the seat reclined back. The car was still running and it was so hot in there that the gas tank melted and the gas tank was leaking, it was a slow drip, but it was dripping fire out of the gas tank onto the exhaust muffler. Yeah, shouldn't be here. Yeah. And that's just one example. You think that was a guard in Angel, was that God that intervened? Yeah. A lot of times I'll actually do that. So yeah, they'll do it. Speaking of cars, I had an experience once while I was driving, I was driving on my truck to go out to the seminary to teach a course and there was a car here and one here and I was behind it. And ambulance comes on the other side so this car right in the front just locks up the brakes and stops right in the back. It's like a 40 mile an hour zone just stops right in the middle. So the guy in front of him just manages to stop before he gets it. But by the time I hit the brakes, I'm looking at the back of this guy's thing, I'm just going to plow under the back of this guy's truck. And so I had my hands on there. It was not me literally all of a sudden that wheel just goes, I go right between these posts, go right between the posts. And then I literally wheel goes, it goes right between the posts, back down, round those two and right back up onto the road and I'm driving. I'm like, yeah, okay, because I need hazardous duty pay. But the point being this is that I think that was my guardian angel. Wow. I mean, I even have more examples. I mean, I've stepped on unexploded HE high explosive ordnance in Afghanistan that is that they stepped on it. Yeah, I took a picture of it because I was like, holy shit, I should be dead. Yeah. I just stepped on UXO HED P-Round and it didn't blow. Right. And there's example, my friend Eddie Penny, I mean, he had a intuitive thought injected into his brain on a target in Afghanistan, yeah, something told, I can't remember the exact story, but something told him, don't go over there two seconds later, the entire building is leveled. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. In fact, that's part of the fact that they can put that kind of stuff into our imaginations. A lot of times, we can talk about the fact that they actually can protect us spiritually or protect us physically from these particular things that happen to us. They can also protect us spiritually by putting in our minds, you know, you really probably should avoid that particular person. I'm not suggesting that people should just be following their emotions and things like that, but the angels can actually protect us spiritually, you know, even sometimes from ourselves, protect us from the wrong kinds of people. The other thing that I find fascinating about the angels, which is something which I actually use from time to time, is this is based upon the inversion of itself, tell the inversion of it and then talk about why they know that angels do it. So demons can actually do the same mechanism, which is because they can affect our imagination, they can, the demons can actually block people by affecting their imagination from focusing on things that you would normally think that they would focus on. This is how, like in our government, you can have people who are engaging in bad behavior for decades or even years, but just for decades and nobody even pays hardly an attention to it. We notice that and that's because the demons can actually affect that. They said Hitler had that he had this phenomenal ability to, at the very last second, shift and change his schedule and just say, okay, I'm not going to, you know, no, we're going to go over here. All of a sudden, boom, they would change it. There was actually a president here in the United States in recent past, they said it had the same phenomenon that he would just all of a sudden changes his schedule out of a blue. And then they would find out there was an attempt on his life that was going to occur. Wow. So, but the demons, so the demons can actually influence people that way too, but they can also block our ability to focus on stuff that, you know, why hasn't anybody talked about this particular kind of fraud in the government when it was this rampant, you know, that type of thing? They, so they can actually do that with the same kind of mecha, so they can keep people hidden. And so the same kind of mechanism they actual angels can do. So one of the things I often recommend to people who are really trying to really force the good and do a lot of good in the culture and that type of thing is ask either our lady to, you know, send her angels down, but ask your guardian angel or the angels to keep you hidden from the wrong kinds of people. And it has a phenomenally good effect because it'll keep, so what will happen is the type, and it's even a mechanism I teach, sometimes I'll teach people who are run major corporations and they'll complain to me like we just keep getting the wrong kinds of people in, you know, they just, they keep coming in and they cause all this damage. I said, well, ask the angels to keep your corporation hidden from them. But at the same time, ask them to keep it known to the people that need to know. So they can actually affect other people to where they don't, you know, on society, you know, I'm going to go work for Sean and then they come in and cause all this damage. You can actually keep those kinds of people away or the types of people that, you know, that could cause you harm or whatever the case is, just ask our lady to keep me hidden from them. I do it in relationship to certain people and just to keep me hidden so that I don't have this thing. And it's been, our lady's been very good to that because, but the angels are the ones that kind of execute that process. With summer travel, even learning a few real phrases can completely change the experience. You're not just pointing at a menu or hoping someone speaks English. You can order food, ask for directions and actually connect with people a little more when you're there. That's why I like Babel. Me and the team have been using it for travel because it's built for real life conversations, not just memorizing random vocabulary or staring at grammar charts. The lessons are quick, practical and built by more than 200 language experts. So your learning phrases you'll actually use. 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How do they, are they in another dimension that's coincides with this dimension? I mean, if you're driving down the road and you go, your car goes off and an invisible thing throws your car back on the road, I mean, are they, are they, are they, well, it demands from one dimension to the other with a second and then how to, what is it, yeah, that's actually a good question. Like, they're not in another dimension because the dimension is a physical thing and they're not physical. They don't have bodies. They can actually move physical things, just put their minds, you know, so it's a form of telekinesis type of thing, but they, they can have it and so, in fact, it's actually, there's a lot of theological specialization by certain theologians throughout history that originally Adam and Eve had the power of telekinesis and then God restricted it to our bodies, because when we make a choice, I can make a choice to think about something different and that means that I'm using my will, which is an immaterial thing to move my body, right? So we do have some ability to do that and they also think that, that the saints have that capacity as well to, to do that God permitting, okay? So all that being said, but basically what it means is that, because they don't have any bodies, but in their minds, they see all the stuff that's actually going on. Now their experience of seeing, see for us, physical things have a much stronger impression on us because we, that's the way God just kind of designed us, whereas with the angels, when they think of a concept, it's far more intensive and experienced than we get even of a physical thing. And so they see those things with great clarity and then their wills, they can actually move, then if they want to affect us in some way and God permits it. just by their wills, they can actually move it. It's like a form of telekinesis, but they can just move it, God permitting, so they can apply their will to actually move those particular things. Can they see our demons? Yes. They see everything that is going on in a spiritual world. Can the demons see them? Yes, they can. Do they communicate? Not usually, although once in a while, they will, and it's usually a one-way form of communication where the angels are telling the demons not to offer you can't do this, you can't do that, because even if the other angels, the lower angels know there's no point trying to communicate with them because they're not going to listen because they're following the will of God. The only time that that seems to be different is in cases that protract of possession, there's six stages of liberation in the stage with stage six, sexual liberation. Stage five is called the ascendancy phase, and there's a part of that phase, it's in four parts, and there's a part of that phase called the saints phase, and basically, sorry, there's the saints phase, so that sometimes the saints will actually show up. I don't see them, but the person who's possessed sees the saints, etc. But then there's another part called the bargaining phase, and basically that's just before the saints phase, and the bargaining phase is the demons know they're losing, they've lost, and so from time to time, the person who's possessed will actually see the interchange, and so it's very similar to the kind of like the interchange that Pope Leo saw of Satan approaching God and asking him to give me a hundred years, so it's a bargaining kind of a thing. So the demon will actually approach Christ because they know he's the guy that's got all the power. He said it all power on having an earth that's given to me, so they know he's the guy they can't do anything without asking him. So they'll actually go to him and ask, give me this power, give me this permission to do X, Y and Z, and he most always says no, but the person who's possessed will see that interchange, so that's about the only time that I've recognized that they'll communicate with, you know, either the saints are Christ or whatever the case is, that's when that communication goes that direction, but otherwise it's just a one way communication. Okay, you know, I've never really realized the power of prayer until the last couple weeks when I did another episode on this, but we've been talking about it all week by last psychedelic experience, and I said some of your deliverance prayers and had intuitive experiences of demons leaving my body. And some of the things we experienced yesterday here were extremely profound. What is the power of the rosary? Well, historically, St. Patrick Pugh used to refer to it as the weapon, especially in spiritual warfare, but it was basically the rosary was a sacramental that was given to a particular saint in order so that those who would pray the rosary, that specific structure of prayer that God wanted people to start saying was given by related to a particular saint, was given to them as a way of, if you continually say this, then it's going to bring about the intention for which you're going to say the rosary, for example, the battle of La Ponte. So the the church are there and they're basically they're the Christians, the Catholics are outnumbered, it's significantly in La Ponte. And so at a certain point, pious the fifth orders that every all the Christians start turning the rosary for the intention of the Christians to conquer the Turks. And you have to remember it was like 10 or 20 to one, kind of outnumber, kind of a situation. So they literally a large part of Christotans, and even the people, the soldiers that La Ponte started saying the rosary asking our lady to invoke, or invoking her, you know, intercession to conquer the Turks, they just destroyed the Turks in the process. So the point being is that the rosary is one of those particular things that a number of the saints have said, for example, if there's a particular vice you're trying to overcome in your life, it starts saying the rosary every day for that intention and pretty quick it'll go away. And so it's one of those sacramentals that was given to the church, which has a pretty profound impact. So when you say the rosary should there always be an intention behind it? Yeah, you want offered up for some intention. You know, and like, for example, given your state in life, you can offer it up for the spiritual obeying of your wife, your children or whatever for your protection. Or if there's particular problems you're dealing with in your in your corporation or whatever the case is you can pray for are ready to start ameliorating those or to for the rosary for that intention. What are some other tools prayers tools that people can use for spiritual warfare? I mean, we talked about at the beginning of this, you know, we brought up the the the the the UFO disclosure, alien narrative and the possibility that the US government is trying to disprove and the Bible and run steel faith from people in destroy Christianity. What what are and we talked a lot about the battle in your mind and for your soul and then what are things that people can do? Outside of voting. As some friends of mine know you say, which we've kind of seen even in this last election, and when the elections going forward is, you know, because I mean, I think people should vote, but this I did you're going to solve the problem by voting. So their phrase is we just have to vote harder, right? Well, it's just not going to ultimately change because this is a spiritual battle. The main thing for people to remember, at least in real, so there's different categories of things that people can actually make use of, but the primary thing is prayer. And Christ actually laid out, he said it in such a way so that they could to create a very specific kind of principle or a mechanics of how the spiritual life actually works. So he says knock and it will be open. So there's two things. You have to do something if you want the door open. He's not normally just going to, I mean once, right, might open the door, but eventually you've got to open up. You've got to do your part for the door to actually open. So the first is knock and the door will be opened, you know, asking you shall receive. So there's two one, you got to do something, but the second thing is what you ask for is what you're going to get. So the that principle, the mechanics of God is sitting there listening all the time to everything that you're doing, everything say because he sees it. And so he's listening. And I've, I've actually had that experience, even in section where I'm mentally, I just said to God, the Father, punish this demon in a way that you've never punished someone before. And he just, boom, it's just, it's just, it's immediate. So you know that he's sitting there listening. But what you ask for is what you're going to get. And the principle is that prayer begets what it signifies. That's part of the spiritual mechanics. That means in the spiritual warfare, what you ask for is what you're going to get. And so an example in relationship to the UFO situation, there's a book called the Alien Delusion by Gates. And in that book, it's a bit dated, but there's, there's some key things in there which still even apply even today. And there's actually, you can go online and actually research this and there's historical situations where people have been abducted by aliens. And then they'll cry out Jesus's name. You know, Jesus helped me. That's the, that's the prayer that they're, that these are kind of, and then all of a sudden, boom, the, the, the aliens completely disappear. Right. And so that, that's an indicator that what they prayed for, they God, Christ helped them. It's the same thing in the spiritual warfare. So if you ask your guardian angel, hey, you know, if you, you know, communicate with him and say, Hey, look, I need you to protect, maybe protect my children. That's what he's going to do. If you ask Christ, or also even our lady, but if you ask Christ, you know, Hey, you know, protect my children or protect me or there's this particular problem, which I think is a spiritual issue. Can you bind any of the demons that are involved in that? Then, you know, can you please just bind them from being able to do anything in a relationship to that? So I actually put out a book called Deliverance Pairs for the Lady, which people shouldn't feel restricted to that book because a lot of times just asking Christ directly, Hey, this is what I need. That's what he's waiting for. And then he'll give it to you. So, and then that's true about spiritual warfare. It's also true about just advancing in your own spiritual life and trying to become a holier. But the book Deliverance Pairs for the Lady has some examples of, Hey, this is how binding prayers work. This is how if you consecrate things to our lady or to our Lord, then as a result of that, they'll start protecting them and things of that sort. So that kind of gives an example of the things that they can actually do. The main thing that people have to do though is they have to understand how evil works. And when they see the evil in their life, they have to go and ask Christ for the specific things. So for example, if you have a child who's like, I think I'm gay or I think I'm this, you have to ask, asking Christ, you know, a give him the grace to see that that's not what the situation is or give him the grace to, you know, not want to be transgender or whatever the case, but also Christ block any demons that could be causing those kinds of thoughts in this kid's mind. if they start asking for the very specific things, that's when they're gonna see the most effect, 'cause what you ask for is what you're gonna get. - So do we talk to our angels, or do we communicate, do we communicate? Do we talk to them, or do we pray to them? - Yeah, you can talk to them. - 'Cause they can, when they see it in their mind, when we're talking verbally, but they can also, if we direct our thoughts to them, they can hear our thoughts. - So we can pray to Christ, God, the Holy Spirit, Virgin Mary, we talk to angels. - Yeah. - How do we differentiate who we pray to? Why wouldn't we just always pray to God if he is the highest? - It kinda has to do with this. Let me ask you this question. Let's say for the sake of argument, there was somebody who wasn't even, you didn't even know, it was outside your corporation, but they really wanted for you to do a particular thing for them. Would you be more likely to listen or grant it if they just came up to you and say, "Hey, Sean, would you do X?" Or would they do it if you're a favorite employer, or one of your wife, they went to your wife, and your wife says, "You know, I think that's good. I'll ask Sean to see what he thinks. What are you more likely to give it direct?" Well, okay, that's because you are what? You're manly about the situation, okay? But most people would do what? They're telling me, "No, no, no, no." But if you're a wife, if you're a drive-ass, you're like, "Now, the reason that you're not, you wouldn't do it is because the reason you like the direct is is because you don't want people being obsequious going around and trying to do that sort of thing." But with God, the way it kinda works is that, yeah, he'll listen to us. So the direct stuff does work, and so I'm not telling people they shouldn't do that. But if the other, on the other hand, he set up certain saints and even our angels, he sent them up so that he wants them to us to go to them because then they can go to him and ask him and because he likes them more, he's more likely to give it. Well, that's how basic intercession works. By the way, a lot of Protestants will say, "Well, the saints can't pray for us." That's not such a. We believe even the Protestants believe in intercessionary prayer. It's just who can do it is the question because they pray for other people too, so they're interceding for other people. And so the question is, is can the saints do it? Well, there's nothing in scriptures that says that they can't. Let's talk a little bit more about the spiritual battle. Is the battle happening right now between angels and demons? Or is this something that's coming? So they don't fight each other direct, well, they do kind of fight each other directly, but it's, so that after they're fall, there was a short kind of period of time in which they still had, they were still in the presence of each other, the ones who had fallen and the ones who were faithful, and the ones who had to be at the vision, the ones who were damper and the presence of each other. At a certain point, St. Michael, who's the guardian angel of the elect, that's his assigned task. He's the guardian angel of the elect. God gave him the power and told him separate them and so that they can't be engaging in this battle with each other anymore. And so that's, and we know about that separation because it's right in scripture, where the, the, the, the, the Lazarus, the guy that's, the guy that's dam, says, hey, can you send Lazarus down to tell my brother, sort of, you know, he says, well, first of all, they can't, we can't cross the abyss, right? There's this separation, and the only time it's ever allowed to go, to cross that is God has to allow it. Okay. So we know that that's actually happened. So there's this, this kind of this, this actual abyss. That means that in the spiritual warfare, the angels and the saints aren't necessarily battling each other and the reason being is because there's this thing called prolation. Prolation is the ability of one thing who's higher, a pray let, is able to command a lower one to do something. All of the angels in heaven and all the saints in heaven have predation in relationship to the demons. So all they have to do is to command and leave, and they, boom, it has an immediate effect. So they don't sit there and battle back and forth. It has this immediate effect. That means that the battle now is primarily in us, in this world, in our minds, primarily in our bodies, where that's where the primary field of the battle is, that's actually occurring, the primary theater, as you would they would say. And so basically what it is is that then that means that there's two components to the spiritual warfare. One, we have to get our guardian angels in this and the saints and God and more involved in our lives so that they drive them out. So there's that. But then also we can combat them to leave as well. And so we can actually command the demons, 'cause Christ gave us the example Satan get behind me. So we can tell the demons get away from me. And because we have rights over our body, they have to respect the natural law and relationship to us. And so if we're persistent, they'll leave. - Do angels kill? I read somewhere that a single angel killed 180,000 on one day. - Yes, in the sense of there has been some, that by understanding is that's the part of the mechanism in the Old Testament. They can, but they only do it when God tells them to do it. And it's the same kind of a thing in which you saw in the Old Testament, God telling the Jews in the Old Testament, hey, you got to wipe out this whole group of people. And the reason being is because even the children and to us, they're just pretty jarring. But the part of the reason for that is because you have to wipe out the dolls because they're doing the evil and they're going to cause evil and you're going to get sucked into the evil. The problem is that the demons that are afflicting the parents are also start affecting the kids and get attached to the kids. And so even if you let the kids leave, you're going to have a problem with it later. And so that's why it was done in the Old Testament. And I'm not suggesting that we do that as a form of warfare today. It's a different kind of dynamic. But that's actually why. But then so in the past, the angels could kill entire segments of the population God permitting. [SPEAKING SPANISH] You brought up Michael several times. What about Gabriel? So Gabriel's assigned function was to announce the coming of Christ to actually the incarnation. So that was his one assigned task. And so that's why he actually appears to our lady to announce-- this is what the actually-- so that's what he was actually created for. Outside that context. So each, not each angel, but a lot of the angels have a primary assigned task for which they were given. And then they have a secondary task that's usually connected to that. And so the other thing that Gabriel actually can do to is to encourage us and to get us to be more devoted to Christ. What about Rafael? So in the Old Testament, of course, he's the one that heals. So he can invoke him for people who might have cancer, whatever the case is, ask for him to actually heal you. Are there any other significance? Well, one other thing in relationship to Rafael, so also Rafael sequestered. He's one of the nemices of asthma deans. Who's the demon of homosexuality and man? He's also a demon of impurity. But in the Old Testament, he sequesters him in the desert. And so he can ask the same Rafael if you're dealing with that particular demon. But you can ask the same Rafael to be the one to help you in that regard. What does the final battle look like? It basically, okay, so the structure of it is, the human beings morals will implode so badly that, and there'll be wars and rumors of wars and all this other stuff, to such a degree that at that point, the Antichrist shows up and presents himself as the solution to human beings' problems. And so, and he gains significant control over the human population. But there's a part of it that he actually doesn't. When he shows up on the scene, then there's kind of stages that actually start to happen. There's still battle and it's kind of going on in a spiritual level. But then, you know, I can allize your show up. They're put to death by the Antichrist. Then at a certain point, St. Michael shows up, but he doesn't actually, he battles with the Antichrist, but he doesn't actually put the Antichrist to death, and in the end, Christ is the one who shows up and puts the Antichrist to death. Okay, but he'll come back to announce the second coming. Uh, not directly, is my understanding. And when it's over, when we go to have a Norhell, are there levels to each, there is. What do those look like? So in hell, the level that you have in hell, which is inverted of what is it in heaven, the lower you are in hell, which basically means the more it's based upon how depraved you are, how evil you actually are. But that evil then also gives you more power and relationship to the other people in hell. So that's why even Satanists are doing a lot of evil things in order to raise their race, their place in hell, and technically speaking, they're lowering it. But that's, so there is based upon how evil, whereas in heaven, it's how good you are, which basically means the more approximate, or the more you like God, the better you actually are as the human being, as a person, as an angel, the more whole you are, than that means that you'll have that place up in heaven. So there's different levels in heaven. What kind of, what are the levels? So, well, the levels are actually based upon the primarily the sanctifying grace that's in your soul. St. Paul refers to in his letters, he refers to the fact that the sanctifying grace is basically God indwelling in us in our soul. It's a qualitative change. So how much we have him indwelling in us determines where we're at in heaven. Now, some of that is broken down into the nine choirs of angels, so we're kind of in that. But there's also like different parts of heaven, so that they call them parts. But it basically just means that there's certain people that will enjoy certain things more than others based upon what the kinds of virtues that they achieved in this life or the good actions that they did in this life will just find certain things more enjoyable in heaven. All of us will have the beatific vision that is to see God face to face. And basically what that is, when you actually look at the, how the saints talk about the structure of this beatific vision, St. Paul talks about I will see him face to face. And I will know myself as I am knows you actually see God inside God's mind, actually see him. And so the way that works is in order for that to happen, there can't be any medium between us and him. And so what he does is he takes him, he infuses in our minds for us because we can't see him right now even though he's here. So go at God does is he infuses us another what they call the light of glory. He infuses us. He strengthens our mind so that all the sudden everything can just peel back and we're able to see spiritual realities in what they actually are. And then but that blue and glory basically means that he infuses that in our mind. And at the same time, he presses his very nature on our minds. So we see him literally face to face. We see him. That means that once you see him, you can see everything he causes, everything that he's done, all the glory and his more in the creative or all that you're able to see it. We can't comprehend it all at once, but we can kind of look at it from different features. And so that's why to heaven is like it's like spending our time looking at this from a variety of different points of view. The whole area you are, the more aluminum, glory you get, and that means the more you understand God and the better you see his glory and his goodness and as a result of that, the happier you actually are. So how happy you are is how whole you are and how good of a life that you led in this life. So if we both die today and go to heaven and more at different levels will we be able to interact? Yeah, we'll have come to all those people in heaven have perfectly interaction. And so let's just say you get a higher place in heaven. So it's a state of mind, a level of heaven is a state of mind kind of kind of. Yeah, it's a state in the sense of different location. Exactly. Exactly. So it's just means that like say you're higher in heaven, it just means you understand more and you have a higher interior of happiness than I have I'm still perfectly happy, but there can be degrees of perfection. And so the people in heaven have done and there's no envy. When I see you enjoying the beatific vision, it's just a say for the sake of argument that you have a higher. I'll actually see how good that is and how God and I'll take delight in seeing the fact that you have a higher place than I do. So there's no envy. There's no nothing. Do you think we will interact with relatives here on earth after we pass? Yes, we actually do. I mean, it depends. So if our relatives actually make it to heaven, then there is some interaction. I'll give you a couple of examples that I've had just recently. My father died about three years ago. In fact, next week, it'll be three years next week. And I was very, had a very strong or good relationship with my father. And in fact, he's the guy that's just talking, hey, look, real man, don't do this or that, you know, type of thing. But, but anyways, so when he passed, because we, I worked as a mechanic with him twice, I've come across a mechanical thing that I couldn't solve. So I literally just said, hey, down, how do I, how do I solve this problem? Institaneously, all of a sudden, boom, I get this clarity and see all you have to do is put the wrench on this direction. Literally, like, even though I had been working trying to force this thing out for 45 minutes, boom, I think came right off. I've had two experiences that with my father. So I think there is an actual interaction. There's also numerous people who talk about, like, I know one actressist whose mother was a very holy woman. And during his sessions, he'll actually call his mother down and say, come down and be present to this. And the person who's possessed can see the mother. So they do, we do have interaction with them. It's just, it's a one way kind of communication. We can communicate with them. They can do certain things with us. There are very, very rare circumstances where they appear to people, but I've never seen an authentic case in my life. I've just read about them. Do we see our direct lineage when we die? Yeah. Isn't everybody our lineage, though, if we all came from out of a need? That's right. We'll know it all. We'll see it. We'll see what we'll actually see the entire lineage of who both up and down the actual line. Did Christ have a guardian angel? So that is a question, which St. Thomas Aquinas asks, and then after him, that was pretty much the general belief of the theologians and saints throughout, after that. And basically, the we have a guardian angel because we're in the process of trying to save our souls and get to heaven, right? And so they guard us so that we can actually get there. So that state, and of us, the process of getting there, they historically, the saints from the patristics uncle, that the wayfarer state or wayfarers were on the process or were on the way to getting there. So the difference, though, is that Christ, even though he was alive in this life, he had the bigotific vision from the time of his conception, according to the entire tradition of the church. And that's one of the reasons why we know that he had this because of the fact that he would, you know, he would actually talk about I and the Father are ones who could actually see it. But he would also say things like you would see in scripture Christ knew their thoughts because he could see it. His human mind could see it in his in his divine nature. He could see because God was causing him so he could actually see those things. So that's one of the, so we know that he had the actual unbiotic vision. That means that he's not a wayfarer. He's already, his human nature was already already in union with God, which is the final goal. And so he wasn't on the way. He was already at the end. And so St. Thomas says he didn't actually have a guardian angel. It didn't mean that there weren't guardian angels who assisted him at time at times. It didn't also mean that he wouldn't necessarily in his divine nature and command certain angels to kind of keep certain things at bay so that he could do certain things. So for example, that you'd read in the scriptures how the Jews would try and they hold them. I mean, he would just walk right through them. Right. So the angels can kind of block them from being able to do that. So the Jews from seizing them. So there was, so his, and he had, he actually mentions this to Nicodemus. He says, you know, you're going to see the angels sending and descending upon the Son of Man, because all of angels in heaven knew who Christ was and they knew that he also being God was who to whom they must serve. And that's also when he said power and heaven and earth will be given to me. So even the angels in heaven obey him and submit to him. So they serve him. And so we know of it that they, so he didn't have a guardian angel, but they all served him. That's just thing. Last question. What is divine mercy? So mercy is defined as loosening the bonds of justice for the good of the individual. So in other words, somebody's done something bad. Now, justice normally being served would indicate that the person should have to suffer a proportionate evil in relationship to it is called the Lex Tullionis or the law of the talents, which is, you know, what you, which is actually in the Old Testament. So, you know, an eye for an eye or two through two. So you have the punishment has to fit the crime and it has to be proportionate. Okay. But a lot of times that's not good for people. Right. And especially with us as human beings, when we're stupid and we realize how mad I did something really bad. If we suffered the effects of all of our sins all the time, we would just be brutalized from the process. So what God does is he loosens the bonds of justice. In other words, he doesn't apply the full punishment of the law because it's better for our spiritual being in the process. And so his mercy, he grants it to us because it's a manifestation of his goodness. St. Augustine says it's the greatest manifestation of how good God is that he actually doesn't punish us, that he actually doesn't extend the full extent of the punishment to us for that. Now, mercy is, we get mercy for two reasons. And this we know from the Old Testament, and we also know it from the New Testament, that the mercy is for the stupid. You know, hey, you're dumb. Okay. And so I'm going to cut you some slack, right? But he doesn't do it all the time. Once in a while, he'll let us kind of suffer our stupidity, so we clue in. Okay. But then the other one is when we're sorry for it. And the reason his mercy, he gives it to us because we're a contract, we're sorry for what we've done, is because of the fact that the sorrow, when we look at the evil that we've done, the sorrow in that evil, whereas when we committed the sin, we were focusing on the good we were getting out of it, and that was disorder. So when he sees that order within the soul that, look, I've done this, I've done a bad thing, and that you're sorry to him because you've offended him when he sees that sorrow, then he realizes, that's the order that I was looking for, that the soul is rightly ordered. And there's a result that he communicates to them, his mercy. And that means he loosens the bonds of justice, and they're not bound by it. And so God's mercy is for the stupid in the contract. And so divine mercy is specifically God's mercy is, he but she said in the Old Testament, look if you're sorry or in the Old Testament, if you're sorry for your sins, this is what I'm going to give you. So there's a certain sense in which it's also his mercy is his justice, because he is going to be absolutely true to his word, which is just that if you meet these requirements, I will loosen the bonds of justice, which is his mercy. But if you're not, then I'm not going to. So there's a justice element of it. But the point being is that his mercy is something which is he desires for us to be under his mercy, which basically means he desires that right or the soul for us to be sorry for the sins that we've committed. And then he basically then at that point, he'll forgive us our sins. And then he, then he'll also confer to us good things because of the fact that we're sorry. What's interesting is, because God's outside of time, and he sees the totality of time, all the time and all at once. So he sees what you've done in the past and he sees what you're doing now. That means that even though he has loosened the bonds of justice with you in the order of time, for all eternity, that is for him, is eternal now, he will see the offense that you committed. This is why Christ, dying upon the cross, has an infinite effect because it extends for the rest of eternity. That's why it says in that Psalms, his mercy endures forever, even though he's, he looked your offense for all eternity. Nevertheless, he also sees your, your, your contriteness. And then you place yourself under his mercy. And then that's what he lives you on, that you live under, even though he sees it for all eternity. So he's literally merciful, even to the people in heaven. The only ones who didn't get to enjoy his actual mercy are the angels who were always faithful because they never committed anything evil. But the, the rest of us, his mercy endures forever. Beautiful. Well, Father, I feel really good about this, I don't know. Don't you like to end it in a prayer? Sure. In the Father of Son, the Holy Spirit, Amen. Jesus, we give you thanks for everything that you have given us during this and for all the knowledge that you've communicated through divine revelation, which has come down to us through the tradition of the Catholic Church and that he'll be able to actually be able to make use of. We also thank you for all of the graces that you've given to all of us and we ask you to continue to give us the grace so that we may be faithful to your call to become a holier, but also that we may be willing to follow the truth regardless of the personal cost. And in that, then God will finally arrive at you who is true to itself and then even the Father of Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. All right. Well, Father, I hope the next time I see is a life I should on the river. I hope so too. All right. God bless you. God bless. No matter where you're watching the Sean Ryan show from, if you get anything out of this at all, anything, please like, comment and subscribe. And most importantly, share this everywhere you possibly can. And if you're feeling extra generous, head to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review. I'm Shannon Maldonado, the director of Artesan, and I'm also the director of the show. I'm a fan of Shopify because I'm a professional and I'm a professional at the time of the first time I've ever been able to make use of it. I was also We have been able to start our journey through the city of Tärkeä and Pohtia. 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