Mother Angelica Live Classic - Modesty

you yeah like a live brought to you from the Eternal Word television studios in Birmingham and see in you the love the compassion of Jesus warriors work of all to praise God in his kingdom - by the spirit lives in love lives in God and God what a wonderful thing is our church this whole network is built on trust the essence of evangelization is to tell everybody jesus do we're all called to be great Saints don't miss the opportunity well good evening everybody and we have just wonderful wonderful people here from just about every state that makes us very happy because it's always good to see the ones you're talking through through that television camera and it brings us more together and brings us at home at home with each other you know we we've gone in many parts of the world to bring the good news and everybody seems to be in the same boat everyone hungers for God everyone needs the Lord tremendous amount of people don't know they need God they go every direction possible and everywhere they go they they still feel that vacuum you know that hunger for God and the reason is we were made forgot we were made by God and we were created for a specific mission special work and one day the Lord apostles came home they were all excited I mean the Lord sent him out two by two and he said go and heal oh wow and they came back all excited I can see Peters eye master I touched a man that was blind from birth and he could see and another one would say Oh master I touched a man who was crippled then he began to walk Oh were they excited well the Lord has a knack of putting a pin in your bubble do you ever do that to you huh I mean he's got a knack for that and he said oh don't be Joyce over that rejoice that your names are written in heaven Oh can you hear what he say it now that's a wonderful thing I wish I could go to a hospital and zip in every room and everybody walk out laughing up just running around the hallway I don't know if the nuns would appreciate that but I think it would be an awesome thing and the Lord says oh don't don't don't don't worry about that your names are written in heaven that's what you have to have to think about all of you that are Catholic all of you they're Christian and got news for your Catholics are also Christian it's amazing how many people think Catholics are not Christian but your names are written in heaven and everybody ever born pagans atheists but I'm agnostic all have their name written in the heart and mind of God why because he created them ever they know it or not he did create them and you see you see this hunger for God even in little children little children so tonight we're going to talk about modesty I know you're surprised she's and so am i because you say what has that to do with holiness a lot a lot modesty is a virtue like prudence today that is rather thin in our lives in fact it's a kind of wholesale nudity you know we were in our thicket was Peru and we turned a corner and there was a little grasped island in the corner on the corner of the square it's a big city and right standing in the middle was a woman as noon as nude as the day she was born and I thought it was a statue when you go to Italy you see a lot of these nudie statues you know and you take it for granted but I realized that thatcher's don't move and she was yelling and screaming and doing all kinds of things and it was pitiful because obviously she was not mentally right and I'm sure they picked her up at some point but I thought to myself it kind of depicts the attender of the day you know we received have lost reality that you and I are temples of Holy Spirit the bad part about it is that too many that's a kind of pious thought Lord God beyond thought and is a reality and st. Paul says is in his scriptures in the scriptures here he said do you not know that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit sometimes we pass churches that have been defamed and terrible things written on the doors it's and you get it in here one at one time that church was a temple of God the bad thing of it is it is still a temple of God as defamed as it is and that's how it is with you and I we are temples of the Lord's and I think we haven't talked about modesty because in the world there hardly isn't one time we're in Italy and we pass this particular street and there was a big billboards whether another nude woman standing there I was curious what she was advertising there wasn't much left to the imagination so I knew she had be advertising something and so I said to my interpreter what does that say and she said it's an advertisement for furniture furniture are you kidding she said no oh so our our whole mental attitude towards modesty is almost non-existent women have never been so defamed as they are this century because they're they're either appearing half nude all nude or very little on and you wonder why we allow that is women you know why do we allow this to go on when we're temples of the Holy Spirit yeah you're not prostitute you're you you got to understand that that Jesus created true the father created you the Spirit created you for one purpose to be a gentle woman to be a woman that knows Jesus knows God and has all the qualities of a beautiful one and we bought that you know one time in the life of john pope john xxiii before he was Pope when he was a cardinal in France he was at a large banquet and the woman next to him at the table had an extremely low-cut dress and so when the dessert was passed around he handed her an apple and she looked at him and she said your eminence is there some reason you're handing me an apple he said yes she said to when Eve ate the apple she realized she was naked I thought that was terrific you know he could have laid her out he could have moved he could have done anything and and she took the Apple and he said I I just thought it would give you some light you know since the Apple was strong enough and Eve's time it might help her a little bit and that's what we need to understand I got a letter the other day from a young girl 23 years old and she says I have a problem she said the problem is that more and more people are coming to maths with shorts t-shirts tennis shoes some people come to mass just as if they're gone to the beach and say much does it this lady had all her kids in shorts told me that God doesn't care what do you think well I think God cares when you go out ask yourself a question when I dress like this if I were to see the Queen of England what I dress like that to see John Paul well you wouldn't even get in if you just that way would I dress this way if I were going to see anyone famous any celebrity would I dress this way before God you see I already told you cinta in fátima she said dress different designs will be introduced that will offend the Lord very much that should be enough for all of us I'm not saying you have to dress like a nun you must dress as a woman who knows her place and her dignity your dignity I don't know how you can go before the Blessed Sacrament in your churches and not be dressed say there's something wrong something wrong with our belief in the real presence represents if we were to see our dear Lord would be bad huh because we don't believe really that he's there some women would never dress the way they do I know something you're going to get kind of peeved tonight I'd rather have you go to heaven peeved and go somewhere else very happy see nobody tells you because they're afraid to hurt your feelings some of you all gals believe me cover it up whatever was there it's gone I just I think if I had the money I would buy everybody a long mirror I think that would be money well spent well spent because you can't look in a mirror and see how you look and if you had two mirrors one in front of you and one in the back of you you would see things everybody else sees I think you'd get rid if you're alone and you see that that's a lack a lack of understanding when you dress like some of you dress you create your there cause of many temptations of lust and many men why because so the Lord is asking all of us all of us to be modest to be modest your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit when you go into the chap any chapel any chap be sure you're going in as a woman of God a woman very much aware of her dignity as a woman that's an awesome dignity you have as a woman you are made in a special way for God you're made to be that mortar between all the brick in this edifice this church this world we live in and you have great power power of love power of kindness power of understanding power of understand so please if I were you I would examine myself and see do I dress in a way that Jesus would be pleased what I dress in a way that I can come before the Blessed Sacrament or come to Mass in a way that he would be placed with if you asked yourself that question you'll be surprised he will give you light you know in Galatians it says what the Spirit brings is long Vannoy and peace and patience kindness modesty modesty trustfulness and self-control self-control is galatians 5:22 you're going to look it up in yours in your Bibles now he said we must understand that these come from the spirit anything else does not come from God so from now on when you present yourself whether at work or wherever present yourself before the Lord but all the beauty a woman is to have but all the understanding it says I love you what it says it says to everybody I love you and it doesn't matter if you're beautiful or ugly or in-between that has nothing to do with it all women are beautiful when they have those qualities a woman should have so I'm asking you pray when you go to Mass remember you're going to a banquet you're going to the sacrifice of the mass and it's an awesome occasion dress for it dress for dress like you know where you're going and modesty means eyes too or there's modesty of the item we don't even think about you know I have to tell you I think I told some of you this one time went to a doctor's office you know they have these magazines brought all over the place since I'm not interested in hunting I put that magazine down and then and there was one on rightful so I put that one out and there comes up Life magazine and and then that wasn't too bad and then she wait almost two and a half hours before you get in there and you spend twenty minutes in there I had a lot of time to read so I opened the book and I there was just a picture then nobody should see so I thought AHA I had a little mini book in my pocket and it was the power of suffering just a little mini book that we have hundreds of and I took that book and I went like this and went can you imagine the man who open that book to that terrible page and saw the healing power of the free why don't you do that sometime when you go to a doctor it's a great place to evangelize bring a little mini book with you a little leaflet and when they have magazines that you're not interest or they shouldn't be in a doctor's office stuff them with many books leaflets anything anything you can save a soul by doing that just a little thing so you know what billboards are don't look at them you should keep your eyes on the road anyway so please guard your eyes many places you shouldn't go why because this is an offense in today's world it greatly greatly greatly offend the Lord and you and I as Christians as Catholics have to repair for a lot of this we cannot be the occasions we have to repair so say your prayers and ask our dear Lord and our dear lady to give us all light all night not to offend I learn by the way we dress the way we act and what we look at I think that is enough on modesty and Galatians which I want to read you tonight we have a problem in the world today of everybody looking for someone else but Jesus you find is if you travel to other countries you find it everywhere they got moony-eyed new age the cults cults satanica al Qaeda come it only proves that we're all hunting wrong looking and and we don't seem to find it anywhere we don't seem to find what we're looking for and you're not until you go for Jesus until you look for the one true only God and until we do that we are definitely not going to get anywhere not somebody want to ask where it's Galatian Galatians 5:22 in case you didn't hear now we want to look at the church the church is the Bride of Christ the church is the Bride of Christ she leads us to holiness she leads us to goodness she leads us to compassion wounded as she is today and will you travel a lot you you realize how wounded the churches in so many places but the church is our teacher the church is our guide the church is the way the church leads us to Jesus in all things and our lady leads us to Jesus we saw a very simple devotion in Colombia it was it's called the the Divino Nino the divine infant and and the statues about this big and the Basilica is huge I mean it I never saw such a basilica for this little guy and I found that the priest who brought it to Colombia had the same name as my father john reisel so here's this big statue of him and I looked at him and I thought are you a relative could it be I have a relative that's a Satan my poor family I didn't know but I was excited and I read the history a little bit of this priest he was so simple he came from Italy went to Colombia a Silesian saw the poverty the also poverty the sickness and and he would have these people by the thousands would come and he had this little Nino in his room and he go to it he would say Looney no you see those people out there they came for you they come for me what you are do for they're hungry I can't do a thing for it what are you going to do for and you go out and I don't think five minutes with bath and people would come with cars full of bread and beans and everything then you go back again you tell me no it's terrible those people are so sick they can't afford a doctor why don't you eat huh what are you doing for these people and he'd go out and he would touch people boom the worst diseases were healed I was impressed by his simplicity with God you know he talked to God from his heart and and we don't know how to do that we've lost the reality that you and I are our sons and daughters of the Most High God oh I I can't I wish so much I could just put that into everybody what a what an awesome gift we have I'm a daughter of the Most High God and He loves me he loves you and some of you out there are laden with such sin on yourself so much if you knew how much he loves you oh you would run to confess you would never be scrupulous her you would never be afraid afraid to tell him a presented thing if you know you're loved that's a greatest gift in the world and and we got to know that one thing you and I are loved and I saw people who were so poor so poor they live on the streets they eat on the street they sleep on the streets I sleep in parks about 25 and in the groups of 25 or 50 and and I wondered why they were so happy during the day I couldn't figure it out because they seemed to have something that those would have everything don't have and and when you went up to them they were very mild and gentle people probably didn't have the attachments we have I don't know what it is but they knew God and an outsider a master a thousand of them at the end of maths the father said I'm going to blow all the children and you just saw like popcorn all of us and all these little kids start rising up from the crowd and they were all someone very what year old two years at the most and when they were raised up the out waving the father even at that age they had a kind of devotion they were almost a shame to have devotion today why why devotion is my expression of love to God that's what it is and we should talk to God as a friend speaks to a friend this frees from is they he he was a simple man he knew God was listening he knew the people were in need and and you and I have to give that get back to those devotions we used to have to speak to God as a friend speaks to a dear dear friend a friend who understand you can you tell him anything he doesn't understand you can tell him everything is on your heart everything is on your mind and and we miss that we miss it because we're so sophisticated today we are so intelligent or so intellectual we know so much and God to create it at all knows you and I heart to heart mine to mine you know it's such an awesome thing to know that God is really beyond our imagination our knowledge or anything he's beyond the bone for and that God loves me if you don't learn anything from this network if the people who travel so many miles to get here don't learn anything else but this one thing your lives will be so much happier that the God who created stars and the creation and mountains and sky and sea with every kind of animal every kind of flying birds everything every creature that's ever been loves me oh wow if you could think of that a lot of your problems would suddenly become extremely small God loves me it's an awesome thought and it's a reality he loves me and if you don't get the heaven if you make a wrong choice no one in heaven will fill your place I told you one time when my grandma would make bread and she slice it for supper I would go and she wasn't looking and I would take a slice from the middle see and I push it together and I have a sneaking suspicion she knew that but that's not how heaven is if you don't get there that place will be empty forever nobody will take your place you're going to go you're that one person and you will know Jesus if no one else were there you will enjoy everyone so remember your dignity you won't have to think about modesty because they will come from your heart you will want to be you will want to be proud to stand in front of the Lord God we have a call hello mother hey where are you from I'm from Birmingham can you speak just a little louder sure are you go from Birmingham good I just wanted to first of all thank you very much for your television network because because of you and God and your television network my husband I became Catholic converts back in April wonderful thank you and in the vein of what you're speaking of tonight on modesty I just wanted to call and say that that is one of the big hold ups that we're having and finding a parish for ourselves here in Birmingham we attended the RCIA classes in a parish and decided because we listened to you and knew what to look for in a parish that this parish was not for us and one of the things was the immodest ways that the people were allowed to dress in the parishes we have searched high and low in Birmingham and have not found that parish yet for this reason I contacted several priests called and to ask them specifically what is your stand one priest out of about 15 parishes in Birmingham told me that he would stand against and ask someone to leave if they were not dressed properly and my comment from every other priest was the same I would rather have them here dressed that way then not have them here at all that's a that's a kind of a cop-out I think no one should be hurt if you tell them we have paper skirts upstairs yeah I mean I know your women are kind of fussy about what you wear but you're not fussy about what you wear and you're not covered where you should be I think a paper skirt is wonderful they're free I gave it to you free but see that that's that's bad because if our dear Lord is offended by dress that I don't know how you could say well it's better you go in and then not go in at all but why you know you cannot get into the Basilica at the Vatican at all these guards all the way there if you're not dressed properly right saw an entire bus of Austrian children you know Austrian mountain climbers dress think it was sitting on the steps they were not allowed to do it you know there's a dress code in some supermarkets I was shocked I said everybody at this time and in this supermarket must wear shoes I said shoes I looked around and now even in a supermarket or fine restaurant you cannot go in if it's if it's a dress restaurant you can't go in dressed like when you're half dressed understand see a lot of places you go half dress you're almost proud of it oh I went to this restaurant everybody know you have to be right Jeff to dress right after act right you're not proud of that you're proud that you are one of the people that can go to that restaurant see well why is it are we saying that all of these women that ninety percent of the women are not going to go to mass if they have to dress properly oh I cannot believe that 90 percent of the Catholic women in the world things like that I think they've never been told that's I only think that's why I'm telling you now you have to be told so please you know don't find out too late that we have offended the Lord I that but scruples on you for goodness sakes well you must have some kind of a decent dress at home but it up we have another call hello hello mother where are you from I'm from New York the recession New York in my name is Joanna I'm al a Carmelite I do spiritual direction uh-huh and I have allowed myself I have to admit I was nervous when I did it but I had someone come who I had seen in church as a Eucharistic minister and I was not at all pleased on how she was dressed and when she makes came to see me I said you know I have something that I need to say to you and I did she was totally unaware oh yeah she was just not aware she has never done it since and she said thank you for telling me and this is a woman who is a very prayerful woman she just was not aware of how she was dressed and I think a lot of people I think the first thing that they need to know first is the indwelling like you said being a Temple of the Lord they don't understand the indwelling to begin with so how can they translate that to being in the Eucharistic presence there's a lack of spirituality in our people because they're not taught it's not an insult to say please dress modesty before the Lord God that that's a I have a hard time I have a hard time with people feeling her see why are you hurt that doesn't make any sense see it's a it's at one of these things you don't talk about but I am scared of the things you're not allowed to talk about I'm more afraid of anybody afraid to tell you what you should know that happens with birth control abortion you know in Omani vitae Pope is Paul Paul the sixth was a real prophet he said if abortion is if contraceptives allowed then they will come abortion and after abortion will come euthanasia now we have it all and now we believe in killing babies that are born turning them around in a breech position all for the good of the mother does that make any sense to you that a baby is about to be born turn them around in the breech position and put a hole in its head to suck out brains I tell me what good have you done to that one we're not talking about in the womb we're talking you this baby is born I hope you all said your cards out that you were supposed to get from your churches and your diocese abortion is killing whether it's one or millions millions in China 30 million girls have been killed after birth why they happen to be girls is it any reason that we are not attuned to the without address when we accept abortion murder assisted suicide has become a point of compassion how can you say that so please the cards that go to your senators and n and your congressmen to veto protests that we tore the partial-birth abortion bill if this country is not laid low by the Lord God be real surprised because we have no regard for the law of God we have no regard for the laws of the church we have no regard for the unborn and we have no use for the elderly we have a call hello mother yes hello I am so happy to finally get through to EWTN thank god bless you mother take we love you here and you've changed our life I have a question I'm in the medical profession yes and I have a question regarding that this this one question I want to see how you would answer it if God is a God of love why does he allow little children to suffer and die yeah a mother the statistics show that many parents with children that have catastrophic illnesses yes end in divorce yes could you please tell me how you would answer the question well first of all God is the God of love and it is not God who does these terrible things many people like the only innocence let's go back to where our dear Lord when he was born about thirty maybe less than that but they think maybe about twenty twenty-five or thirty children were slaughtered by Herod's anywhere from one to two years we called them martyrs now and we call them holy innocence the many reasons why children are born with what they're born with many children are deformed many children have cleft lip many children are syndrome children many children are and there's a lot of reasons for that a lot is pollution a lot of drugs alcohol smoking a lot of these things different pills that women take or have to take or think they have to take all of these things are not God's will but since God has given us freewill then he permits good and evil he permits all of us there's no one here or no one out there who hasn't been the victim of somebody else's wrong decision not counting the bad decisions we've made on our own but God in allowing these things raises us to a higher level of holiness by Barry the unjust with a loving heart by baring our eggs in our pain and most of all the pain of seeing someone else we love suffer so much and he sent his son the suffering servant as as a leader for us to follow as a guide his own son suffered from what from the jealousy the ambition the rejection of his own he did nothing to deserve what he got what came from that our Redemption our redemption came from an unjust judge the judge Pilate the pharisees the sadducees who who should have known this is the Lord Messiah but he was not the Messiah they wanted and neither are is the Lord the Lord God we want today we want the Lord of comfort we want the Lord of wealth we want the law word of everything the ones the Lord who gives us the abundant life and that's another fault we have today in the whole world we do not preach the cross you know Padre Pio said if we understood the preciousness of suffering in our lives we would hold it as a treasure we were born with original sin and those consequences are always with us and we manifest them when we're very young I manifested my anger when I was three by telling my grandma there to shut up she was that's my my father's mother she was always laying into my mother I was three years old I can see the stove right now and the oven door was down and she was really my mother because she didn't cook the chicken right or whatever and I looked at her and I said oh shut up you all time talk talk talk well my mother raised me up and kissed me but my grandmother didn't however it showed you know that that little Italian temper was there three years old it gotten a little better but not too much better it's there by by overcoming we choose to be like Jesus instead of these other things we are and little children suffer the best I've ever seen when we get older we fuss and fume and the little children suffer for the world they suffer for mankind they suffer the Saint Paul said your lives this is a wicked generation he said than your life should redeem it your lives have to be that that point of edification a child that suffers suffers innocently like Jesus a child at suffers I'm sure gets a great great great reward in heaven and that's another thing we never hear about heaven heaven where we're going well why we were really born why we were created and a static place a state and the place will never have pain or sorrow or loneliness or aches and pain these children suffer greatly many of them have cancer cancer when they're born who can explain them but Jesus gave us that example and Jesus knows whom he can trust he knows so he can trust with pain and from my own experience I know next to my vocation my aches and pains and braces and everything that goes with them are the greatest gift God has given me why because with my temperament my my faults and weaknesses I need that and not that I don't take mass burn and all the rest but I need something it keeps me close to the Lord they may not be the case with you but no when the father looks down on any suffering servant he looks on you as he looks on his son with great love understand we have another call hello hello mother where are you sir I'm calling her Flint Michigan wonderful what is your question well I would like to thank you for talking on the subject of modesty nobody does and we all lot of and I promise I won't be afraid to speak out ever again of it my question is we found EWTN on cable about a dozen years ago and so I've been watching you and the sisters and loving you and praying for you and then we moved away for I couldn't get et of EWTN and we just recently moved back and I tuned in and lo and behold you and the sisters are in full habit yeah the person I talked to explained a little bit about that but I have no idea why you're wearing a full habit and I wondered if it had anything to do with the subject of modesty we're talking about tonight could you kind of fill us in those of us who either don't know why or have been away and got lost no wait oh right we felt that people in the world and all were we're getting wrong impressions I religious life we felt that we had to be the religious God wanted us to be I was meaning those of us that are Lady of Angels - Jay in Birmingham Alabama we felt that we had to be at more of a witness a witness to every one that there is here not a lasting place it's a constant reminder of women who by nature are vain not that men are vain don't get me wrong men are very vain if they weren't vain they wouldn't general try to dye their hair when they're getting gray but we have to be a witness that there is another life that that life is worth sacrificing your greatest treasure on earth on earth a woman's greatest treasure is her hair she's all excited when it starts thinning out she's panicking she has it done every week every month whatever and it's part of her beauty oh we cover ours does that sacrifice just our Lord we are yours we are totally yours and we belong to you the veil is a symbol of total dedication to Jesus and it reminds laypeople hey wait a minute and I better shape up a little bit I don't even think of God I don't even think of heaven I don't even think of where I'm going I don't even know where I'm going it's a constant reminder everybody says why are you dressed like that one of our sisters was in a store and a little kid oh I don't know maybe 2 or 3 years old me she started running she said mama there's Mary ha ha ha oh they were great even a child knows when you when you dress for the full Abbot for us I like criticizing anybody doesn't have a full habit you all have your own inspirations you know what you're doing but for us the world needs a witness that the things of this world are not lasting there's more to life than eating sleeping drinking working joy pleasure suffering there's more there's a place we're all headed for and when when we see women that have given it all and given it up then we're remind it totally reminded and and you see more and more in the world they have forgotten when you when you're when you see a world afraid of talking about modesty in church what are where we going if we're afraid to do that then how are you going to be afraid to say sweetheart you're in adultery oh you don't want to hurt their feelings yeah go ahead hurt don't be afraid it a person that teaches the truth really really loves you the ones that keep hedging and make you hear what you want to hear don't love you they love themselves because they're afraid they're afraid love overcomes fear I love you God loves you dress like a daughter of the Lord and you men aren't doing too hot either you walk in church with short shorts on who wants to sit all during Mass look another those hairy legs if you could look at yourself I don't think you'd ever go to mass looking like that the men aren't any better than the women don't let don't think you're off the hook you're not just like a man for goodness sakes that's like a son of God a daughter of God don't be afraid remember my old mum she had many a wonderful little sea one was everybody else to bring his own carcass to market when you died is nobody going to be there but you ad Jesus and so that one estimators we are be modest be loving be women according to the heart of God this world would change overnight well I got so intent I forgot to say put a squeeze between your electric and gas bill electric bill anything we need to without you it would not last a month be generous write to Mother Angelica Irondale Alabama three five two one zero I love you and never forget get up in the morning say he loves me that's all that matters and all during the day your burden will be lighter because he is with you carrying it by now

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Length: 55min 24sec (3324 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 25 2014