OPEN LINE WEDNESDAY -February 2, 2022 - with Fr. Mitch Pacwa

about the nervous system and the brain being the center for that but even in contemporary english there are uh phrases used on the street about being so frightened that it has a major impact on your intestinal tract um or so angry that it has an impact on your urinary tract and people use that kind of expression well that was their way of thinking so the idea of eating fruit to gain knowledge did not seem very far-fetched to them all right i've got one for you here on uh we've got kate who's watching us on youtube yes and she said was there something special about the cup that joseph's servant planted in benjamin's sack i've read it was used by joseph for divination is that correct or a misinterpretation it is a made-up interpretation now there were people in the ancient world who use drinking cups for telling your fortune there are people in the contemporary world who do exactly the same thing it's called reading the tea leaves or there are women in the middle east who will you know after you drink your coffee they'll take and shake around the uh coffee grounds and they'll read because they you know usually drink turkish coffee so their grounds in your cup and they'll read the um the the stain of the coffee grounds in your cup so this is a very common way to do divination but there is no evidence that that was going on with benjamin so because people do read tea leaves and coffee grounds in cups but they also just use their cups to drink the coffee or the tea and sometimes that's all it is now i say what about with wine well you know in the old days when they made their own wine there would be some of the dregs on the bottom that's what they might read us who knows what they're they're all sorts of ways that people came up with fortune telling devices all of which are forbidden but there is no evidence of that with benjamin so they're just making that up i digress then i some jerry was saying the rosie with me from the holy land i point a cave that was mary's home where she lived and yet i said that she died across the street from the upper room i thought i read the shoes with john and turkey and died there help me figure this all out well the place jerry's house in ephesus man i point out in the rosary video that the cave that was her home was up in nazareth that's where the annunciation took place and it's at the basis of the church of the annunciation you have some foliage on yourself there i'm leaving so great so but then later on after our lord's resurrection after pentecost she had stayed in jerusalem and that she lived there and john took care of her up there now keep this in mind saint john is not in ephesus until about 70 a.d which is vaguely possible for our lady to be there but she would be in her 90s now it's not very likely this is a very late tradition the earliest traditions we have are that our lady lived and died in jerusalem was buried there her tomb is in jerusalem and she was assumed into heaven from that tomb in jerusalem it's not only that this was a jewish christian church in the first century so the jewish christians were set were offering mass at her tomb in the first century a.d but also there was a a number of versions of her assumption that and they all take place in jerusalem i don't know of any in uh turkey so uh that's that's what we have there so that's his best i can piece it together you have a question in there that's got a one minute answer no todd's watching us uh are called in and he wants to know if a catholic lay person can administer last rites in an emergency situation no no no baptism yes uh any christian even a non-christian can administer baptism but you may not administer the sacrament of the last rites and i deacons cannot do that so no as much as you know that sounds like certain emergencies um but this is you know not you know something that we have uh permitted 833 288 ewtn is our toll-free number it's a free phone call anywhere in north america 833-288-3986 it's ewtn's open line wednesday with father mitch pacquiao [Music] tomorrow morning on the sunrise morning show we'll celebrate the feast of saint blaze and discuss why he's the patron saint of throat ailments we'll also talk bible foods with certified herbalist rita heikenfeld from abouteating.com catch up with pastoral counselor kevin prendergast and talk to gary machuda author of revolt against reality plus news weather sports and more the sunrise morning show tomorrow at 6 a.m eastern on ewtn radio father benedict groeschel there are legitimate differences of opinion in any religion there are differences of opinion in catholicism but in catholicism you expect that people will take the teaching of its supreme authority seriously to go diametrically opposed to those teachings is to not be a catholic someone in the name of catholicism is sponsoring the destruction of human life lives of unborn children and they got the name catholic on the door the highest authority in catholicism in the encyclical 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a soul have thought or memory or any of these things which is commonly depicted in the you know i think common depictions of souls being able to do these things uh how you know why why i mean why is it not understood that these things happen in your brain well first of all um it's the there are a couple things going on um it's not a matter of people not understanding that the brain has an important function in having thoughts no do you know people who are denying that how could you have any thought well oh well well wait first of all do you know of anybody who's denying that the brain is an important aspect of function of having thoughts no i think no no nobody's denying that are they all right so that's rhetoric so you what you want then to say is take a look at something else um there is something that is that the soul is the substance of what it means to be human and there one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that knowledge is not something physical is it for instance mathematics is that a physical reality there are theoretical ideas but no no it was i couldn't hear you say that again yes you're right these are theoretical ideas well no no not just not just theoretical but the process of thinking about numbers it has nothing to do with anything physical does it no that process happens in your brain which is physical oh whoa whoa whoa whoa the here's one of the issues this is what i'm getting at that during this life the brain is functioning and we are able to process these thoughts because our brain is in relatively good health and bad health in the brain um makes it something that it becomes difficult especially because it has to coordinate the uh sending the thoughts to the mouth and the ears you know the thought connecting what we hear what we say and that which are physical but the thoughts themselves are not physical no none of our thoughts are physical and realities and as we make that transition where our our soul is no longer uh within the physical body and become something that is pure spirit like the angels it doesn't mean that the thoughts disappear simply because the brain the physical brain is no longer functioning the thoughts that are themselves very spiritual or uh realities that the non-physical realities whether it's math or any other thought that's not physical in this life it's connected with physical reality of having a brain but it is not something that the thoughts themselves are not physical and this is why we believe that after the body is separated from the soul that it is possible for those non-physical realities of thoughts to remain in the non-physical reality of the human spirit that they it doesn't the spirit doesn't cease to exist and neither do the thoughts so they are able to continue on in the spiritual life and that's because they the thoughts themselves are spiritual and not and completely non-material does that help fernando yes i didn't think of it that way thank you father you're welcome 833 288 ewtn is our toll-free number next up is ryan in midland texas listening on guadalupe radio ryan welcome to the program ryan are you there yeah i'm here there you are but what's your question okay father i was wondering in 1965 when the interim mass was celebrated with mostly latin and some vernacular here and there is that truly how the vatican ii fathers wanted the mass to be once the council was over yeah you know that that's a good question ryan because they never stated that that was the form that they wanted what they did state in the first it was the very first document of the council and that was the constitution on the sacred liturgy and i would urge anybody to read it's not a super long it's not the most exciting reading but it's not super long and in that document they do state that they want more participation in the liturgy by the by the people but they don't specify that it should be in the vernacular uh they said it's possible but they didn't say this is what we want and in fact what they did say is that they want the people to learn especially the commons of the mass in latin so that they can participate in those parts of the mass but they didn't state that they wanted the vernacular or did not want the vernacular they don't they they don't really address it very much at all it was after the council that that came into play the council fathers just didn't state that so that's about that we can't say what they intended since they didn't write an intention one way or the other except to say the lay people should learn the parts of mass and participate and they should learn the latin parts next stop is emily city michigan eric is in the great state of michigan listening on ave maria radio eric you're on with father mitch hi how's it going um thank you and god bless uh the question i have today is uh my dad and i were talking about the trinidine and the uh nova soda mass and we were wondering what um if there was more than one what form of liturgy if that's the correct terminology was it and how did it look and sure just kind of question past liturgies i guess sure uh great question eric the earliest uh description of mass is given to us by saint justin martyr he was the son of a roman soldier he lived in neapolis in the holy land today that is the town of nablus and in fact his family's house is now a mosque it had been a church and is now a mosque um in the center of the the great mosque of nablus and he knew greek wrote in greek but he also lived in rome for a number of years that's where he was martyred and he describes the mass in its earliest form and then you can all you can look him up on that uh and also uh in the apostolic constitutions you hear some descriptions uh in the second sentence now those are second century descriptions for the most there were a variety of ways of celebrating the liturgy um but they have all all the different forms have very strong roots in the uh uh jewish friday night services you know for to celebrate uh sabbath uh so um a number of things that we have from that and is are present in all the rights is that there is introductory section the readings from scripture followed by a sermon followed by the offertory and then the dialogue the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts doesn't come up to the lord let's give thanks lord is right and just followed by the holy holy holy that's in all the different liturgies and that comes from the jewish liturgy and then the consecration and prayers and communion and art the our father those were some of the earliest elements and they are still present in all the rights whether in coptic in aramaic chaldean and syriac or armenian or uh greek or latin so we can only look back and see from what we have a vague idea what they did in the early church but what they did continues on in basic form in all the different rights it's ewtn's open line wednesday with father mitch paqua [Music] ewtn the global catholic 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catholic she was raised catholic she probably hasn't practiced the faith for seven years or more maybe longer she's probably going about late 20s early 30s does she practice any christian faith yes okay so she's starting to go to some other church is that right yes yes that's correct okay okay so go on i just needed to get some background here so go ahead uh well her her sister is a devout catholic the the dad was raised pretty catholic he's stronger now the mom was not catholic so but she practices the faith i mean he came into the church when the parents got married but um so i just wondered if i i know there are some situations where we we really can't go to a wedding um i think it depends on the culpability of the person getting married i'm not sure right right there a couple things uh the the culpability of the person is a factor secondly um would this person construe from you being there that it is uh you know something acceptable for catholics to be married outside the church now it sounds to me like she has little regard for catholic theology and practice in any way that doesn't sound like that is one of her priorities at all so that it doesn't sound like she's trying to um say something to attack the church or make fun of the faith or anything like that right right yeah yeah and here's the thing you know and i use this as a principle to help discern if the person were going to use my presence as a way to say now see catholics uh have to accept my way of doing it if that's going on then i wouldn't show up but if it's you know she's just going on her merry way and if your presence were something by which you could be reaching out to her that this could be a way to try to draw her back that would be something you could do but if it's in any way being used as a way to put down the catholic faith or to show uh defiance of catholicism and try to get you to take part in that defiance then i would stay away those that would be another important part of the criterion i would use does that make sense it does it does i i i wondered if the law the length of time of her being away from the church yeah is somewhat of a factor of course it is because here's the thing um you know do you find her openly anti-catholic no no i i suspected not i said but a lot of times they you know a lot of young people learned so little about the faith that they just don't say well i know everybody gets saved anyway so or or anybody any church can be say that they're taught that sometimes and they don't see or have any basis for seeing why catholicism is more true than anybody else and so it's it the culpability for that may be with their catechism teachers uh rather than with with these young people but you know so if if there's no anti-catholicism or attack attack on the church involved in this then it would be something you could do and maybe even by being present have a certain reach out to her that you could help attract her back that might not be a bad thing to do okay thank you so much you're welcome tom god bless you we head next to the east coast of the united states where paul is listening today paula you're on with father mitch hi father mitch i'm going to keep this short okay um i have scupulosity and anxiety and other health issues and um i've been listening i've been i've been communicating with scrupulous anonymous the redemptorists newsletter for scrupulous people okay and one thing they say is like i've been i struggle with with temptations to one chastity okay and they say if you are in doubt of whether or not you have committed or not committed a sin then assume that you haven't okay and like don't confess imagine sins true okay but my my getting i learned some tips from your book um how to listen when god is speaking and now i'm fighting out my my um my salvation and fear and trembling but um so what i find myself doing i'm learning more about myself and it seems like i get into positions where either out of self-deceit or uh ignorance i almost put myself in a dangerous occasion of sin and i don't really see it and then it seems like the lord convicts me after that this wasn't a good idea but i don't sense that i've committed a sin should i tell that to my pastor who my pastor doesn't want to talk about anything in confession um yeah if you can meet with your pastor outside um that would be probably a good thing because in confession there's usually other people waiting so if you can make an appointment to discuss that with him that would be um a very good thing to do um yeah i would definitely do it outside of confession and you know see and and also try to keep you know the issue very pointed so you get right to the issue with him and that he doesn't have a sense of you know you going back and forth but you just help to get his guidance at that point that would be a good good thing to do does that make sense except that he and i have a glitch for communication and he does not like being around yeah yeah okay here's what i would do paula i would go look for a priest in another parish and say father i have a you know because then you've got you know you want to deal with this an interpersonal issue to get in the way of the theological one and spiritual issue so go find a a priest that you can say father i have a question and i'm just trying to resolve uh try another uh parish um even if it's in another town look for a priest that you can say okay i can talk to him and ask him about that uh yeah you don't need to you know let any interpersonal tension with you and the local priest get in the way of getting a good answer so just try someone else okay thank you father you're welcome 833 ewtn is our toll-free number 833-288-3986 tony in batavia new york is listening to ewtn on the station of the cross tony you're on with father mitch thank you father for taking my question a fairly quick one uh john the baptist in the womb of elizabeth was he absolved of uh original sin at the time of the visitation when mary pregnant with jesus visited right and b part if so did elizabeth not experience labor pains when she gave birth to john the baptist a i wasn't there so i it really it would be pure speculation to say they're part of the country at the time no i just wasn't there or anywhere um no i don't like to speculate on those things um be you know it would be something of dealing with the actual situation and there's nothing stated on that uh so that that we just have to leave that as a point we just don't know and may not be our business it's just one of those things that you leave but in terms of saint john being cleansed of original sin at the visitation this is a theory among some theologians it's not defined by the church it is a theological opinion that folks do talk about um and this is something that a uh would be fine um you know to to argue about but you know there's nothing in the text saying and the presence of the child jesus removed original sin that would be again theological speculation and theory and i refrain from that i'm not i i have enough to learn the things that are actually stated rather than worry about the unstated things that i cannot prove or disprove and get into that kind of thinking right now in our world issues that are clear like thou shalt not murder now shalt not steal these are being disputed and we need to focus on those things that are sure that the lord has made very clear to us and the other speculations are not bad things it's not bad speculations but they remain speculation and we can't know more than what we see in the text so i leave it be thanks so much we appreciate that phone call today you know it's groundhog day right yes it is so how could we pass on a phone call from punxsutawney pennsylvania paul is in punxsutawney listening on the ewtn app paul you are on with father mitch yeah hey father mitch thanks for taking my call sure so i've got a friend a fellow catechist we're catechist teachers at our local catholics okay school here for the public school kids so this is she's a very godly woman i mean work she's a cantor in the church bible study working with the kids in the in the kids choir so we're at a meeting the other day and we're sitting around talking and i don't even know how it came up but she let it flip that she has like a just a habit i guess you i don't know what you call but she she will let f-bombs like why okay i'm not not in public or anything around her husband or you cut her off driving or something god help you you're going to get slipped off and i i mean and she was she born in new york city because over there it's punctuation well you know and i said look i said that's a sid i said and he said use that word i said her you know customers like i said she maintained well look my anger might be a sin but but the simple use of the word it's a man-made you know heard it's a man-made word made-up word that it that it's not a sin to use that word night and i thought okay i'm gonna i'm gonna call a guy who would know okay there are a couple things you know um this kind of language uh is uh you know really is being used all across the conjunctees and new yorkers uh though i've seen movies for about new yorkers where it's just punctuation you know it's it they're not thinking at all about the use of the word uh or what it means and they and i would distinguish that which is a bad and vulgar habit um and you know you know using for instance that you can usually control um using bad words uh or words that are and by bad what i'm yeah i'm thinking like i did when i was 10. uh using these vulgar terms out of the anglo-saxon roots uh usually are terms that um you usually figured you cannot say in front of your mother you know most people who said those kind of things growing up did not say them in front of their mothers and the concept the possibility is one like dead meat on a plate uh and saying that kind of language in front of your mom and so people control them and there is the possibility of greater control but it's not uh you know in that that use that is you know uh like exclamation point in the sentence um and is used with with out any sense of the meaning of the word being present that is probably certainly not morally sinful it's just plain vulgar when there is this angry pointed use of it that is directed at being not merely vulgar but perverse in the way you describe somebody that is something else and i would distinguish you know the um you know the i i worked in in car lots and in car auto garages when i was a teenager and it you don't even pay attention you know because it was just everywhere um and you know it didn't mean anything but it's it's something that i would remind people who use it in that way that this is something that is like a chili pepper if you put too many jalapenos into the sauce you're not going to taste anything else it just becomes this meaningless word that is meant to be a hot pepper in your in your speech but there's so much of it what you the rest of what you say gets lost because you're using these terms uh the way uh vinnie does in my cousin vinnie um you know and you just you know as a matter of fact i recommended the movie was pretty funny and i you get so accustomed to hearing you don't even pay attention anymore because this is a guy from brooklyn just talking this way and you miss the rest of his content that's what you i don't see any advantage to that and i would i wouldn't call it sinful in all of its uses but some of the uses can be very sinful when you are trying to be very gross to people does that distinction help yeah yeah that pretty much clears it up because you know these words they become part of the lexicon in so many ways the lexicon they've been in the lexicon it's the problem is that they're in everybody's speech and like i say it you know it becomes meaningless so uh deacon richard eason you're going to visit with him tonight on tv yes yes yes what are you doing what are you guys going to talk about talk about uh improving your spiritual life um you know and how you know he he comes at this from the he's a lawyer by train training and you know he so he's very much involved in the secular world um and this is something that um is very useful uh conversation about a book he wrote on making your spiritual life something much more serious all right very good that's ewtn live tonight eight eastern time right here on ewtn radio and television we head to canada sean is in port perry listening to ewtn today on the amazon echo sean you're on with father mitch hello father mitch i'm very curious about um why one never hears any mention whatsoever on ewtn of saint roche who is the patron saint against pandemics he lived in france in the 1300s he went on a pilgrimage to rome and when he got there the plague had broken out so he helped look after the sick people and then he became worried that he might be contagious so he went into a forest and built a hut and stayed there and while he was there a dog came and brought him food every day so he's also the patron saint of veterinarians and he means a lot to me because i've had three wonderful guide dogs i've sent ewtn for the past two years asking why they are not you're fading out yeah yeah i did i'm sorry you're faking out there um yeah um i i don't know uh uh what you know we we can include him more um you know i've met the number of saints who became saints in the context of plagues saint aloysius gonzaga is one of them saint john burkmans is another one um they were ministering two people who had plagued and they got to plague themselves and died um and there are a number of others um so these hawaiian martyrs uh uh uh molokai but uh not martyrs or not martyrs but yeah yeah yeah right attracted leprosy all right right but you know i think that we can promote saint roke um uh i usually usually hear we refer to him uh in reference to the being a patron saint against cancer um and you know uh so that's normally where we associate him but we can get that uh i'll see we can get done i don't know um what they would do but maybe we can you know get that included in the rosary prayers and the mass prayers more 833 288 ewtn is our toll-free number next up is mary angela in abilene texas listening on guadalupe radio mary angela you're on with father mitch hello hey what's up well i have a friend who was when i first met her 20 40 years ago she was an eben fellow christian and in the last 20 years she met a jewish man who did some kind of evangelist evangelizing for the jews she married him and she lived in israel but she comes here to visit to texas sometime and we had a visit last month and she gave me some youtube videos of herself doing some kind of talk show thing they last about 20 minutes and they're all about the six patriarchs emotional straight and i listened to three of them and abraham is supposed to be have the trait of something and another one is a trait of something else like you know um i can't remember her she mentioned in there that somebody had lied and he committed the sin against the universal law of lying that was both both abraham and his son isaac lied about their wives and then isaac's son jacob lied by saying that he was his brother esau when he wasn't so you've got at least three of them lying in very basic ways very serious ways that anybody that lies goes against the universal law the universal laws right i looked up universal laws and that some kind of a new may be not new but that's the mantra they go by instead of the ten commandments they go by the universal laws so where did the universal laws come from i don't know what kind of judaism she practices but i wouldn't be surprised that she is she may be involved in kabbalah which is a type of um it's a school within judaism a medieval school uh within judaism and they it has parallels not exactly the gnostics but that's parallels to some of that and it may be that she gets these universal laws from within cablistic uh documents that would be my first suspicion and you know we derive the the uh from the eighth command against bear and false witness that you shouldn't tell lies god bless you mary angelo we appreciate that mary kay in la salle illinois wants to know how many times you can receive communion in one day the norm is to receive it once a day but in certain circumstances you can receive it more than once say if there is a special ceremony like a funeral or a wedding and the regular daily mass then you can receive it twice but that's a match would you leave us with a blessing lord bless you all and keep you the father the son and the holy spirit amen amen on behalf of our host father mitch pacquiao our producer charles very call screener rich jesse and our social media maven mr jeff person i'm jack williams thanks so much for tuning in back at it tomorrow with father brian malady until then god bless [Music] i'm roy brown 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