[music] Man: "Mother Angelica Live!" brought to you from the Eternal Word Television Studios in Birmingham, Alabama. [music] <i>Mother: See in you the love,</i> <i>the compassion of Jesus.</i> <i>The most glorious work of all,</i> <i>to praise God in His Kingdom.</i> <i>Anyone moved by the Spirit...</i> <i>Anyone who lives in love</i> <i>lives in God</i> <i>and God lives in Him.</i> [music] <i>What a wonderful thing</i> <i>is our Church.</i> <i>This whole network</i> <i>is built on trust.</i> <i>The essence of evangelization</i> <i>is to tell everybody,</i> <i>"Jesus loves you!"</i> <i>We're all called</i> <i>to be great saints.</i> <i>Don't miss the opportunity!</i> (applause) Mother: Thank you. Well, family, here we are, and it's wonderful to be with you on Tuesday night. It's our Family Night. Well, tonight we share our thoughts, our desires, our crosses, and remember that from this moment until this hour is over you can call, ask your questions. If I don't know, we have plenty of priests around here that can answer them. And express your needs. Maybe you have a doubt of the Eucharist, maybe someone has confused you about it. Whatever it is, that's what we're going to talk about tonight. You know, I'm surprised how many people have written how much they like my habit, our habit. And some hate it, (audience chuckles) I hate to tell you, but I could care less if you hate it, (audience laughs) because see, if you hate it, I'm very happy about that, because it tells me there's something in your heart that's not quite right. I don't expect everybody to like it. You don't even like the hat or the dress your mother bought last week. So we're not going to always like what other people wear. But we must at least take time to listen to the symbolism and the witness and the statement. We hope we're a witness. We definitely want and do make a statement. Now, I've been surprised how many have said to me, "We love the monstrance," and some have said, "Why do you wear that thing?" Well, let me just explain a little bit, huh. Our life, our monastery, our order, and it is an order, was founded years and years ago, founded the same year that the Pope declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. So that's over 100 years ago. Our order was founded for one reason--for perpetual adoration of the Holy Eucharist, the Blessed Sacrament. You say, why? Well, the Foundress and Founder, who happened to be a Capuchin monk, decided that the world needed reparation for its awesome indifference towards the Eucharist. Now, what do we mean, perpetual adoration? Well, that means that there is a sister in our chapel all day. Every hour the sisters change and they're there one hour at night, an hour and a half, with the express reason of praying for you. Do you realize how many people die in their sleep? Do you realize how many people have terrible accidents, are murdered, killed, how many people plan all kinds of terrible things at night? Do you realize how many sacrileges there are against our Lord's wonderful presence, huh? How many receive Him unworthily, how many chapels are broken into and tabernacles and the Blessed Sacraments scattered everywhere, all over the world, how when so many of our churches it's kind of hidden, like hide-and-go- seek, you know, we're going to go in this church now and look for the Lord, and so for all of that we make reparation, we try to repair. For those who don't believe any longer, they're among the many priests, religious, bishops all over the world, lay people, we say, "Jesus, we're sorry, we believe, we hope, we love, we praise You in this wondrous presence." You know, we're not believe that God would do such a thing would we, huh, but would you become a piece of bread for anybody you love? No, I wouldn't. I don't know anybody I love enough to say I would, by some wondrous miracle, come down in a little piece of bread like that. I wouldn't, I couldn't do that. Most of all, I would have found it hard to remain in such a small space. If I had created the whole world and I held it in my hands, the whole universe with all its galaxies and milky ways and quasars and dark holes and all the rest of it, if I knew every star by name, and I knew every creature that ever will be created, ever had been created, was ever on this earth and I knew also every hair that fell from their head... I wonder what God does with all those that don't have any hair? He must count something else. (audience chuckles) You know what I mean. Anyway, if I had all of that power, huh, and then I humiliated myself to be in the womb of ever so Holy Virgin. A Virgin, but still what a comedown for a Great Holy God, Second Person of the Trinity created by whom all things were made and without Him nothing was made. If I had done all that and then I had come into a world that did not know me, I'd walk down the street and nobody knew who I was or cared, and even if I performed a miracle they would only run after me because of the miracle, not because of me, and then I had chosen 12 apostles and one of them was a traitor and one denied me and I knew all that ahead of time see and then I went my whole life doing good. The more good I did, the more they hated me. Well, then I would see this time when they would not only hate me but they would put me to death in a most awesomely gruesome way, and then I'd look down from the cross and see not even a handful. After all the good I did there would be my mother and an ex-prostitute become a saint and a young man named John. All those I had loved and given so much to weren't there. They ran away. If I had done all of that, I don't think I would have done something else besides. You know, I would've thought, "Well that's enough, don't you think?" Wouldn't you have thought that was enough? But you know, He promised He would be with us till the end of time. He said, "I'm going to send you another Paraclete and He will teach you all things." And then one day He said, "Come to me, all you who are burdened, and I will refresh you." I always use to wonder what that meant. You say, "Well it means to pray." Well, I'm sure it does, but to me--and I guess that's why the Lord gave me this vocation. He meant, to go to Him in the Eucharist. "Come to Me." He knew He would be here, and so at that holy sacrifice at the Mass, He comes. I marvel, I marvel at the power of priesthood. Wow, what a wonderful thing, what a wonderful power to be able, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to bring down Awesome God. Oh, you can't imagine, huh. It would have been wonderful, wouldn't it, if people would have flocked to Him? Other people would have said, "Where is He? Where is He?" And other people would've said, "I'm ill and I'm sick and I got to see Jesus." Or others that didn't know that God would go to Christians, who are suppose to know Him, and say, "You have something that I would like and I want. Where is Jesus?" I think He would have expected that that down through the centuries no matter what happened to us, we would go to Jesus. No matter how bad things were, no matter how depressed or desolate or anything else, if the whole world fell apart, we would go to Jesus, because in His infinite wisdom and love, He had come and stayed with us as He promised, and every child that would been told, "Our God is with us," and he'd say, "Where?" "Come and see," just like it did in His, His day. "Master, where do You live?" He said, "Come and see." If someone asks you today where, "Where do you live? "Where does this Jesus live that you talk about and love," could you say, "Come and see." Well, you should be able to. "Come and see." Well, I want to read you what He said. Not what I say. There's some awesomely beautifully sarcastic articles being written about me. (laughs) They are really funny. You know what I mean. They're so sarcastic that I look at that and I say, "Wow, I didn't know that." One man said, "Mother is a heretic." I said to the sisters, "Do I look like a heretic?" They said, "No. What does one look like?" I said, "I don't know. "I don't know what a heretic looks like." Another one was very kind and gentle and said, "Mother is very ill. We need to pray for her." Sweetheart, I have never felt better in my entire life. (applause) Now besides being called a heretic--which I kind of enjoyed in a way. I've always wondered what it meant to be heretic, now that I am one and then I realized, now how could someone call me a heretic? You know, I thought, well I believe in the Holy Roman Catholic Church and all the other Churches that are in union with it. The Chaldean Church--I have a real thing for the Chaldean Church and the Melkite and Maronite and all the rest of them. I believe everything, the Eucharist, my love right here. I miss my crucifix, but I love Him and I want to see Him always. Well, I believe in all the sacraments and their power. Oh, they're so powerful. I believe in prayer and piety. I believe in devotions and processions and I believe in the cross, the crucifix, confession, Immaculate Conception. I could go down--I believe all of those things. So I've been really trying to find good--a good dose of interior scrutiny is good for the soul you know. I mean, you got to look deep in your heart sometimes and say, "Well, maybe I am a heretic." Well, as I examine what the Catholic Church teaches, the Roman Catholic Church, I couldn't find anywhere where I was a heretic. And I finally figured it out. In the Church, the Catholic Church here in America and other places in the world, they have done away with all those truths. We don't believe in the Eucharist. We don't believe in confession. You kind of tell everybody you're sorry, put a rock at the end of a cross. I bet the Angels say, "These people have rocks in their heads." You know, put these rocks on, because that gets rid of your sins and then you get welcomed by the elders, whoever they are. Now I believe in the real thing. Say <i>mea culpa, mea culpa</i>, <i>mea maxima culpa</i>--my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault. So since I don't believe everything on this side of the fence, on that side of the fence I'm a heretic. Praise You, Jesus. On this side of the fence I believe with all my heart everything the Church teaches. I hope and pray I'm a faithful daughter of that Church and the Eucharist, which is our identity as Catholics. And you know what I would like you to do? I would like you to read your Scriptures, see. Another little classic thing being said is that I am giving my opinion to you. Oh, please don't ever take my opinion for anything. That would be foolish because Jesus Himself said, "The opinions of men mean nothing to Me." That must make the feminists happy. (all chuckle) But see, "The opinions of men mean nothing to me," He said. Well, don't make my opinion mean anything to you. Don't take opinions--don't live by opinions, because opinions change. Live by the truth. I would like you, tonight before you go to bed, or tomorrow, to read the entire 6th chapter of John, the entire 6th chapter. Believe what the Church teaches about the Real Presence of Jesus, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity--Real. That's what you believe. And I'm going to read a little bit to you. We have all kinds of encyclicals here. I decided not to read one because they're kind of heavy, but they're wonderful. One is called <i><u>Instruction</u></i> <i><u>Concerning the Eucharistic</u></i> <i><u>Mystery.</u></i> It says some wonderful things in here. It talks about kneeling. It talks about the ciborium and the paten and how it should be made and what we should do. The practice of genuflecting before the Blessed Sacrament is a sign of adoration. There's a lot of wonderful things in here but I don't have enough to give you. But I want to read you the 6th Chapter of John, just some of it, because I want you to hear the truth and to know the truth. I want you to grow. I want every Catholic listening to me who really believes in the Eucharist--and if you're not a Catholic, that's okay. I'd like you to go in any Catholic Church. Some of your churches are closed all week and you can't get there till maybe Wednesday night or Sunday. You go to, and just sit there. First you've got to find the Lord, I'm sad to say, but once you find the Tabernacle, I just want you to remember this. "I am the Living Bread which has come down from Heaven and anyone who eats this Bread will live forever, and the Bread I give is My Flesh." Now somebody says, "Well, that means crucifixion." Well yeah, I'll buy that." And he goes a little further, and the Jews began to question Him, and they caught on real quick, faster than you. See, you go to one church that says "No, it's not there. It's just a symbol." Oh yeah, yeah. You go to another church and it says, "It's only there during Mass." Oh yeah, yeah, okay. It has to be some truth. See, we have to find what is it. Well, the Jews said, they started arguing among each other and said, "How can this Man give us His Flesh to eat?" They caught on. Did Jesus stop? No. "I tell you solemnly," He said, "If you don't eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you will not have life in you." See, "And he who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood lives in Me and I live in him." Isn't that the most wonderful thing? You know, I was telling the sisters the other day, the two things that we can do the Angels can not do. These wonderful, marvelous, powerful, intellectual beings--the smallest angel would make Einstein look like I don't know what, dumb. They cannot do two things that you and I could do. They will never, never, never, ever receive the Eucharist. These most worthy beings, these most powerful beings, these most pure beings and they have never offended God. I can't imagine never having offended God. I wish I could say that. I'm sure you wish you could say that, never once said no to God. They've never done that. You talk about purity. You can't even imagine the purity of the angels. Tomorrow we got a wonderful guest on angels, but they will never receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus. Can you imagine that and you and I, poor unbelieving sinners that we are? They will never, like a priest, be able to bring down through the power of the Spirit that wondrous change, that transubstantiation. They'll never do that. Another thing they'll never do that you and I can do is suffer. They'll never do that. They'll never be martyrs or white martyrs or blood martyrs. They'll never die proclaiming the word. They'll never be able to suffer persecution or any kind of hurts or sufferings or pain. They'll never have cancer. They'll never have anything at all that they can offer to God as a sacrifice. Isn't that an awesome thing, huh? And our Lord says these marvelous words to you and I, poor human beings, sinful, ever striving, just running it so hard to be virtuous on any level. Wow, "Whoever eats Me will draw life from Me and anyone who eats this Bread will live forever." It says He taught this doctrine at Capernaum and after hearing it many walked away. Well, things haven't changed. I wish they had. We have a call. Hello. Caller #1 (male): Good evening, Mother. Mother: Good evening. Where are you from? Caller #1: New York City. Mother: And what is your question? Caller #1: First I'd like to tell you, you have the best show on television. Mother: Thank you. Caller #1: There's a lot of garbage on TV, and every show should be as meaningful as yours. My question is, I have a friend who is Christian and he says that Jesus is not present in the Eucharist. He says, the Bible tells the truth and in the Bible it says, "Do this in remembrance of Me," it's just a symbol of remembrance. How do I tell him he's wrong? Mother: What Bible is he using? Caller #1: Excuse me. Mother: What Bible is he using? Caller #1: Um, Christians, I don't know what Bibles they use. He said it's the same one as mine. I can't believe that. Mother: Maybe he's got one of these inclusive language things, you know, that they don't know what they're saying. Let me say what it says. It doesn't say a symbol. It says a doctrine. And you see, you don't give the Lord much credit for honesty if you don't believe the 6th chapter of John. Why? Our Dear Lord, if He was speaking of a symbol, would not in justice allow people to walk away ignorant of truth. "I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. "Do this in remembrance of Me." Now, He is obliged--because He is God. He is obliged to tell me all the truth, otherwise how would I be responsible for my actions? How would He judge me if I didn't have a chance to know the truth? See, He can't, He can't judge my conscience if it's not enlightened, and so if it was a symbol... Like, "I AM the Vine, you are the branches," that's obviously a symbol. If He was speaking of a symbol, then He used the wrong words. "Unless you eat My Flesh and drink My Blood." Now when these people left Him, since He is God, He is the Truth and the Way and the Life, then He would be obliged to say, "Don't walk away. Let Me explain it to you." See on the common-sense level, and the common-sense level is a run to faith. It's an increase. Common sense would tell me the Lord God, Who has promised me that He would be the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and He says here, "Unless you eat My Flesh and drink My Blood you will not draw life from Me and whoever does eat My Flesh and drink My Blood draws life." So He is the Life. He is the Way, and so they walked away, and what did they say? "This is intolerable language." Do you think the truth, the ultimate, awesome truth that we call God, would allow intolerable language? If they misunderstood and they thought, "This is intolerable," then He was obliged as God, because when they walked away they incurred culpability. See, don't give, don't accuse our Dear Lord of being unfair and unjust. And He says here, "How could anyone accept this?" Your friend can't accept it, so he misinterprets it because he cannot accept it. What's the difference? Now, what does the Lord say? "Jesus was aware that His followers were complaining." What did He say? "Does this upset you?" This would have been the prime time to say, "Let me explain it." "What if you were to see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?" In other words, if this miracle upsets you, will you accept His Resurrection? Will you accept His ascension? Will you accept that He is God and God can do whatever He pleases? It is the Spirit that gives life. The Flesh, see when we think on the fleshy way, we can't give anything. There are some of you who do not believe. Jesus knew from the outset who would not believe, and the one who would betray Him, and He said, "This is why I told you that no one could come to me unless the Father allows Him." If I have trouble with the Eucharist or you have trouble with the Eucharist, ask the Eternal Father to give you that faith. "Then Jesus said..." Now just imagine, here's a crowd, the Lord is giving this awesome doctrine, awesome. The crowd leaves one by one. Suddenly our Dear Lord is alone, with just about 12 apostles, all by Himself with 12 men. At this point again He should have said, "They all walked away before I could explain, but this is generally a symbol." You know what He said? "What about you? Do you want to go away too?" Would He have asked the 12 men He chose to, to begin a whole new Church to go away when He was at a point of giving His entire life for the redemption of man? Would He have sacrificed these apostles and all they were to teach and all the places they were to go? He was willing to do all of that, and Peter said, good old Peter, "Lord, who shall we go to? "You have the message of eternal life, and we believe that You are the Holy One of God." What is Peter saying? Peter is saying, "I don't understand, Lord. "I don't understand, but I know one thing." And if you have any questions, a problem with the Eucharist, this is the one thing you don't know, and that's the whole basis of your problem with the Eucharist. "You have the message of eternal life that we believe." Did he understand what our Lord said? No way, no way anybody could understand. But the ones who left knew exactly what He meant. They were to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood. They walked away. It was the same as the Resurrection. After He died, after they crucified Him, they went to Pilate and said, "This Man said he would rise on the third day." They remembered. The apostles forgot. (laughs) I think that's amazing. The apostles forgot and the Pharisees remembered. Said, "Put a guard there, otherwise His apostles will come and steal Him and say He rose from the dead." You see, it's the same thing here. See, we don't understand how it is. We don't understand how this little wafer becomes the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus, but Peter says, "We know You are the Holy One and we believe." Our Lord said, He said, "Have I not chosen you 12, yet one of you is a devil?" Hard stuff. This is before the Last Supper. This is at Capharnaum, not Jerusalem. So I think sometimes, you see, we only read a part of the Bible. If you take the Bible out of context then you could make it say almost anything. That's why I want you to read this entire chapter. Jesus said it. I believe it. We have another call. Hello. Caller #2 (female): Hello, Mother. Mother: Where are you from? Caller #2: I'm calling from the Chicago area. Mother: Okay. Caller #2: I can't help thinking how anyone could call you a heretic (Mother laughs) when it's so obvious that it's the Holy Spirit who guides and prompts everything you say. Mother: Well, I'm glad you don't think I'm a heretic. (Mother and caller laugh) Caller #2: I know you're not. Our Lord is so wonderful. Mother: Yeah, He is. Caller #2: Yes, He is. I'm calling for... Mother: I don't want to interrupt your question but I never understood what the Lord said, one time He said, "When they persecute you and they say all manner of evil against you, dance for joy." Who wants to do that? But you know, and I got this terrible article in a church bulletin besides, and then it says, "Be careful what you watch on television. "Don't watch Mother Angelica." (audience chuckles) You got the New York Police Department. Isn't that a horrible thing? Then you got all this crummy things. You can't even watch an ad. You got violence, sex, alcohol, drugs all on television. "Be careful what you watch on TV." Caller: #2: Thank God. Mother Angelica: I'm even on the index. There is no index, but I'm the first one on it. "Be careful your kids don't watch Mother Angelica." Well, I thought that was funny. If I wasn't crippled I would have danced for joy (audience chuckles) because it was so stupid to me. Of all the things you shouldn't watch, it's Mother Angelica. Well, that kind of Church I don't want to belong to, and that kind of Church, in that kind of Church I would not be welcome. Now, what is your question. sweetheart? Caller #2: I was calling because our priest, and we pray for him an awful lot, and he believes it. He's been fooled. He states that we should stand during the consecration because it is a more traditional way of celebrating the Eucharist and that to, to kneel... Mother: How far does he go back when he says "more traditional"? Caller #2: Well, that's what he doesn't say. He quotes some liturgists, which is sad, and he says we are to stand and give praise. Mother: Those are the 4th century. Huh? Caller #2: We're to stand and give praise rather than to adore the host, and it just makes you cry. But how do you answer them? And still you're praying for them. You want to keep your Church going and you're praying for this priest, because we know the Lord called them and they responded, and they've been lied to by satan. What do you say to them? Mother: Well, you can't agree, because it's wrong. It's so funny about these liberals. They call us traditional, and it's a big mortal sin-- if you're traditionalist or something, you need some help. You know what I mean? You're just ill. And they tell me now that I've gone backwards by wearing this habit, and yet they go to the 4th century and tell you to stand. (audience laughs) You know what I just said? You know what I just said, don't you? They go back to the 4th century and say, "Now we stand," because in the 4th century they stood. Hey, I'm going forward. This habit is going forward. If you're all back in the 4th century because they stood they stood because they were being persecuted, 1st, 2nd, 3rd century, and even then we don't know if they stood. How can somebody tell me that in the 3rd century they stood for the Eucharist? I mean, you got some kind of blame. Maybe a mystic you are, huh. You got some visions that see all these people standing in the 3rd, 4th century. How can you stand? How can you stand when the 3rd Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit comes down into the hands of a priest in that awesome moment when he changes that bread into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. How can you stand? You know, somebody told me that they stood because if they went to see the President of the United States they would stand. So would I. (audience laughs) But the President of the United States, sweetheart, is not God. That may be a revelation. (appaluse) He's not God. You see, I kneel not to a man, I kneel to God. If I knelt to a man I would be an idolator. You see, that's the hurt. I want you to go to make a visit this week because to me it's such an act of "I will not serve." The Luciferian sin is everywhere. You see, you have to look back if you want to see what our sweet, lovely, new liberal brothers have done to us over 30 years, very slowly the introduced inclusive language. You never knew it. Very slowly they changed prayers that lost their beauty and their sense of awesomeness and mystery. All of a sudden they take away--we belong to the Latin Rite but it's a sin to have Latin. Well, why don't you change rites? Very slowly they have taken everything away. Slowly they took Our Lady away, the rosary away, the statues away. Now you go in some of these new churches and it's a hall. One church has a big mirror in the front. When you walk in, you see yourself. You see everybody twice. You see the person next to you and then you see him over there in the mirror, happy, happy, happy. There's nothing in there but this huge mirror. "We're community, whoa, wonderful, a sinless community, because you don't need to go to confession. "You don't have any sins. The Eucharist, well, you know, it's just a symbol." Oh you sing hotsy-totsy hymns. I'm telling you, they rock and they roll. That's not God. No, that's not God. Once you take the awesomeness away from God, that He deserves that majesty, and mystery, once you take that away... I hate to say this but I'm going to. Since I'm a heretic I might as well say this. There must be at least one good holy Catholic Church in your area, a Church that believes in the Eucharist and believes you should kneel. You know, I wonder who makes that phone call, "Okay boys, we take away the kneelers," and from coast to coast they start ripping up the kneelers. "Today we do this and this week we do that." Ah, every nasty article that everybody has sent me all say the same things. You know what I think? Somebody called up and said, "Boys, this is what we're going to do to ruin her credibility. "We got to get rid of this gal, so in the newspapers we'll say she's a heretic, she's not a Catholic, she doesn't believe in the bishop, she doesn't believe in the Vatican, she's a priest basher." A what? I never bashed a priest in my life. "Well, let's all say that." And all of that happens in every newspaper, in every column in diocesan papers, in bulletins and you know, I've been getting bored lately because all the nasty things I say are all the same. Why don't you come up with something else? Well, I think that's what happened to the kneelers. I don't know. They must have a big club somewhere called the future club, the future Church of America. It has nothing in it. You can do what you please, as you please, when you please. We are pluralistic. We believe that everybody can do what they want to do except tradionalists. They're nuts. Well you know, I just, I have a hard time with all this because--oh yes, somebody else said I was angry--oh, angry. Shouldn't I be angry? Shouldn't you be angry? Shouldn't you be angry when our Lord's Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is ridiculed by His own? And see, so many of the sheep going in the wrong direction. Shouldn't you be angry when the rosary's ridiculed and Our Lady's ridiculed? Shouldn't you be angry when everything you hold beautiful and Holy is suddenly snatched away and you're looked upon as a heretic? Shouldn't you be angry when good Holy faithful orthodox traditional priests are ridiculed and send to psychiatrists or sent to colleges to be reprogrammed? Yeah, I'm angry. You're right. That's the only thing you ever said was right. I am very angry, and all of you out there should be the same, and you should start somewhere along to line to say enough is enough. To answer your question, I have a habit of going to California by way of New York, but yes, pray for him but don't jeopardize your soul by allowing it... You know, there is occasions of sin. There's also occasions where you could lose your faith, where people sow doubts, but remember what Our Lord said here. "Will you also go away?" He didn't change His mind. I'm very sorry some of you have changed yours. I would like all of us to say, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." We have another call. Hello. Caller #3 (male): Hello, Mother. Mother: Where are you from? Caller #3: I'm from Fort Myers. Mother: And what is your question? Caller #3: Before I say my question, I'm going to say, Mother, what this world needs is a more, a lot more heretics like you. Mother Angelica: Thank you. Caller #3: Mother, I just started in a Catholic School yesterday, thank God. I've been praying that I get in and I did and yesterday we celebrated Mass with our bishop because he was visiting. Mother: Praise God. Caller #3: And I was glad that our bishop was going to be there and then when it came time for that awesome Presence to come down into that tiny little host, no one kneeled. I was shocked. What do I do, Mother? Mother: How old are you, honey? Caller #3: I'm 14. Mother: Thank God. Since you believe in the Real Presence, and I, it does my heart good to feel that a 14 year-old boy like you does believe with all your heart, I would kneel. No one can stop you from kneeling. You see, that's-- that's Jesus. You're not an equal. You're a son of God. You kneel because He's God, you see. You know, questions like that you don't know how to answer. It makes your heart want to cry, because He comes and we just stand there and say, "Oh well, what's next?" When you look in the past in the saints, they would go into ecstasy at that Real Presence. When Our Lord appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, He wanted her to prostrate. Do you know what that means? It means to go down on your stomach with your head on the ground and your arms stretched out before His Holy presence in the Eucharist, prostrate. You read the life of saint after saint after saint and the Lord told them, "Prostrate yourself." When the angel appeared to the children at Fatima they, they prostrated, as he had the chalice and the host there he came down. "I am Michael," he said, and St. Michael came down and prostrated himself on the ground before the Real Presence. The very angel of God prostrates himself to that Real Presence. You'll be persecuted, sweetheart. You'll be called a heretic. That's the best club you could ever belong to, because you believe. I don't know, and since many are calling and asking if a priest, or priest who are present who distributes the host, what about that? Well I think somewhere in the documents it says if there are a lot of people you can have Eucharistic ministers, but the priest should not be sitting down while lay people distribute Communion. That's his job. But you see, all of those things, many of them are wrong. And I don't like to fight skirmishes when there's a big battle to fight, you know. The battle, for me, is the Eucharist. There are many, many things wrong in the Church. Standing is one of them. But for you, sweetheart, who really have a faith in that Real Presence, you kneel, and if they throw you out like they did one woman, go to another. But when you kneel, say, "Lord, I love, I adore, I praise, and I bless You." I think it's obvious tonight that if we want this world to be saved from awesome, awesome chastisement, you can call it what you want, purification, whatever. For all the abortions, do you realize all the abortions that happened on that awesome January 22nd, so many years ago, all those people would be 21. They would have been doctors and lawyers. Well, for that and all the permissiveness of TV and all the evil in the whole world, do you think God is mocked? No. He's not. I beg you tonight to go to your church this week and pray to Jesus in the Eucharist and ask that Wondrous Lord not just to have mercy on the world and let it go on in its awesome evil ways. All the good can save it. If all the good in this world, if all those who believe in Jesus, if all those that are Christian, even those denominations that don't believe in the Eucharist, if we all got together and prayed, at least mentally, in sackcloth and ashes, with hearts that are, are repentant and hearts that are sorry that the Lord God in wondrous majesty is so offended, maybe He would have mercy upon us. Regardless of that, we need, as Catholics who believe in that Real Presence to make reparation, whether or not there are floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes, not for that reason do we love Him and not for that reason do we ask for pardon, but for our sins, mine and yours, do we make reparation. Our indifferences, huh? Let us look at the Eucharist when you go to see Him, and say, "Hi Jesus, I'm here. "I believe, I believe in every word You said. "Lord, I have no one to go to except You. "You promised if I come to Your Holy presence with my burdens You will ease them, and You had promised to feed me my Daily Bread." Say that, will you? And tell Him most of all, "I love You Jesus." See you tomorrow. (applause) [music]
