OPEN LINE WEDNESDAY -Jan 19 2022 - with Fr. Mitch Pacwa

yen this is open line with today's host father mitch paqua in north america call toll-free 1-833-288-ewtn [Music] that's 1-833-288-3 [Music] outside north america call 1-205-271-2985 you can also text the letters ewtn to 5500 or send an email to openline ewtn.com a tremendous wednesday to each and every one of you thanks so much for tuning in to ewtn's open line if you'd like to talk to father mitch the number to be on the program is eight three three two eight eight e w t n that's eight three three two eight eight three nine eight six if you're outside the united states and canada your number is one two zero five two seven one two nine eight five and we'll even put you straight to the front of the line at one two zero five two seven one two 2985 you can always send us an email openline ewtn.com or you can text your question to father mitch text the letters ewtn to 5500 wait for a response text your first name and your question message and data rates may apply i'm jack williams michael mccall back in the saddle producing the program today your call screener is matt gubinsky and jeff berson marvelous person is handling our um social media efforts so if you're watching us on youtube or facebook live you can type a question into the chat window and it may find its way to us by the end of the program and our host to see us every wednesday father mitch pacquiao how are you fine thank you you've got some emails lurking i do well they're sort of laying in a folder oh man i know don't turn don't turn your back on him that's my advice to you all right um first off from cindy uh thank you for your show enjoy it i was wondering in john 16 verses 12 through 15 jesus our lord states there are still many things to say and tells us how the spirit is going to reveal things that are to come what exactly has the spirit revealed that jesus hasn't told us for the most part it's a great question by the way for the most part that refers to the uh further development of doctrine our lord gave us a lot of teaching and when new questions arise for instance as the gospel went to the greek speaking world they had questions different from the jewish world and those things were taught i give an example something that our lord never addressed was the morality or immorality of homosexuality didn't talk about it because this was not an issue in jewish society moses had made it clear in the law and that was that whereas when saint paul and the other apostles went to the gentile world where this was a moral issue then they addressed it as in for instance of romans chapter 1 verses 18 and following so it had to be addressed in a new situation and over the centuries new questions have arisen in new situations and this is uh simply a way to understand that um the holy spirit will guide the church through these questions and issues and help develop doctrine as we go along so that's what that's about and then from gretchen as catholics how do we understand when jesus says my father's house has many dwelling places well very clear that our lord is speaking about heaven having lots and lots of room for those who are redeemed it's not as if you know um i'm sorry heaven only has a hundred and forty thousand hundred forty four thousand places in it this is something by the way taught by the kingdom hall of the jehovah's witnesses and the uh you know that's not stated there's lots of room in heaven and um we keep on evangelizing by the way for the jehovah's witnesses only the 144 thousand who were baptized by 1935 a.d were will be among the 144 000 according to their doctrine i don't know if they've changed that but that's what it was so where's the enticement in this day and age well then you get to be in a paradise on earth that they'll say you have an earthly paradise but you won't be in heaven all right so that's one of the things they teach and then also from jim in grand rapids father mitch can you give some guidance on tithing as a catholic i feel i should devote my giving mainly to the church and other catholic organizations after all if catholics don't support the church who will certainly won't be the atheist yet every day i receive mail and see tv commercials for very worthwhile causes if i'm giving mostly to the church does that cover me for not giving to these other charities thanks in advance yeah yeah jim you know um a lot of the appeals in for many of the charities that you see out there really do attract folks who are outside the church and you know that they make all kinds of appeals some of which are emotional for a very good reason there's a tough situations but overall the uh catholic charities that you give to sponsored by the church have a much better record this is not um my analysis this comes from a non-christian organization called bread for the world that money given to the church more of it gets to the people in need than to administration and this has been consistently the case so giving to your church is a very very good idea um so that we recommend that and then from gene um i'm a roman latin white catholic who first received communion before vatican ii when the three-hour fast was in place so did i now that there's a pandemic the bishops permit can celebrating priests to use intention or dipping the body christ into the chalice containing the blood of christ at the time that drinking the precious blood was introduced with eucharist under both forms i was taught that it was improper to dip one's host into the the precious blood and that's still true the individual communicant cannot dip the host given to that person into the chalice that's not permitted um only the priest can do that why because so many people if you notice the priests purify their hands before they begin to distribute that's very common and uh some people may put their finger into the precious blood uh you know we priest then be very careful about that so you still cannot dip it is improper to dip your own host into the precious blood but it it has always been proper for a priest to be able to do it um and uh the intention now a lot of liturgists are against the use of intention because if you do receive the body and blood of christ by intention then the the eucharist may not be given to the person it must be placed on the tongue by the priest that's the rule that you have with intention and a lot of liturgists don't like that in the roman right because they want people to be able to receive communion in the hand and you can't do that with intention so uh but there it still it was um uh you know something necessary and uh it was uh or something permitted and it still is that in the mironite right it's still the norm we have a few people who are at risk for covet and who prefer to receive in the hand and so we can't uh intent the blessed sacrament for them they want to see it in the hand not from the uh on the tongue from a priest that's you know and so we we we allow that now uh didn't used to but very few do that very few you have to have some dexterity to distribute it in the mirror mironite right yeah yeah you do well we have certain a type of patent that has a cup in place in it and so we can just dip the body of christ into his precious blood right on that one thing that works out well or the deacon will hold the um chalice for the priest very good and then just one real quick one we're we're no no quickness 833 288 ewtn is our toll-free number 833-288-3986 it's ewtn's open line wednesday talking taker theology sacred scripture ancient languages and the like with father mitch pacquiao [Music] [Applause] tomorrow morning on the sunrise morning show we'll celebrate the feast of saint sebastian patron saint of athletes andrew pettiprint will also join us from word on fire to talk about the moral and theological implications of the metaverse as well as gary machuda to continue our series on his book revolt against reality plus news weather sports and a whole lot more the sunrise morning show tomorrow at 6 a.m eastern on ewtn radio hello this is janet morana of priests polite with pro-life update every year from january 18th to the 25th the week of prayer for christian unity is observed by many denominations all christians by definition acknowledge jesus as lord and savior of the world that affirmation of christ requires that we were to fight injustice in his encyclical letter on christian unity issued in 1995 pope john paul ii wrote many christians from all communities by reason of their faith are jointly involved in bold projects aimed at changing the world by inculcating respect for the rights and needs of everyone especially the poor the lowly and the defenseless christians who once acted independently are now engaged together in the service of this cause so that god's mercy may triumph the pro-life movement continues to be the arena where these efforts are the most visible and valuable this is janet morana on the ewtn global catholic radio network this is open live on the ewtn global catholic radio network if you have a question call 1-833-288-ewtn that's 1-833-288-3986 outside north america call 1205-271-2985 or send us an email to openline ewtn.com that's 833 288 ewtn that's our toll-free number 833-288-3986 the new book from ewtn publishing this much is graceful living meditations to help you grow closer to god day by day uh in this little volume graceful living john at williams my lovely wife shares pearls of wisdom from the saints doctors of the church and holy men and women designed to help you grow closer to god each daily reflection will prompt you to delve deeper into your prayer life and self-examination explore the timeless wisdom of the growth with graceful living meditations to help you grow closer to god day by day and this is just one of the options that everybody should have don't you agree father mitch everybody should have some sort of of a daily reader or something that that is part of their daily routine when it comes to learning the faith and studying sacred scripture huh absolutely not to mention the fact that i've seen this wonderful change in you for the better since john has been working on this book and that's graceful living by johnny williams available now at ewtn's religious catalogue that's ewtn r c dot com easter is on april 17th father mitch yes it is i i looked it up so there you go all right all right so anyway you had uh one more email that you wanted to yeah i just wanna somebody asked if uh non-catholics go to purgatory um for the same reasons that catholics go yes you know so uh whether you believe it or not it doesn't matter there are a lot of uh people who don't believe in going to jail um that doesn't stop it so it's saying purgatory and then also from last week we had a question about the portion given to hannah and i looked it up and uh frankly nobody had any kind of a good answer it was all guesses it seems to be very idiomatic because the literal hebrew says which means it is one portion of the nostrils which usually means refers to the whole face um and so it's some sort of uh portion of honor and but it's it does say one portion of two nostrils um and it's it's you know some sort of way of honoring her uh even though penina has more has children and lots of them um hannah was more honored that was the best that any commentator i found could say first up today is becky in sioux falls south dakota listening to us on real presence radio becky thanks so much for holding you're on with father mitch hi father mitch say i think this will be a really quick question for you um i i'm kind of into the genealogy of jesus and i really my kids really like it when i teach religious religious ed class and we discuss it however now when i'm going to bring in mary's today you know she goes through david's david um solomon and then there's nathan and it goes through that line but her father in there says h-e-l-i are eli i mean either one and it doesn't say so i'm a little confused okay haley yeah it's um that's not her father you know one of the things you got to keep in mind about the genealogies is that um they are they they both seem to be uh lacking some of the names there's not enough names to cover the amount of time that is laid out there uh especially when you get to the later uh centuries the centuries just before our lord it seems that they have it in the the first few um uh you know the the first couple hundred years and then there's a gap from the time of the babylonian uh exile until you know that later on and they there there just are some names missing so they didn't add just make up names and add them to make sure that it was long enough but apparently what they do is give what they knew and left some gaps and that's also part of the issue but it's important to note the words of the archangel gabriel who says that mary's son jesus our lord would inherit the throne of his father david that is also gabriel's acknowledgement of jesus roots through the blessed mother so she's also from the house of david but you know again like i said most most of the people i know who uh in the commentaries uh think that there are a few names missing because it's just not quite long enough to cover all those centuries does that help becky yes i just got to be able to these 11 year olds are smart they'll figure out good things so good i like smart 11 just tell not to be smart mouths no they're really good say you said something earlier that i um i do have a young child who has cerebral palsy he is non-verbal um so when we go to communion we try to not do he's gone through his first communion but i have to they actually put um the eucharist in my hand the priest and i break it because he can't control his tongue because i really have to put it back there okay is that i just don't want to be doing anything wrong no no not at all you know this is one of the things that for various uh necessities you know we can accommodate to help because the important thing is that your child receive our blessed lord and find joy in in the lord uh and your help is just fine just fine that's that's not a problem god bless you becky we appreciate the phone call today 833 288 ewtn is our toll-free number 833-288-398 phyllis is on long island in new york um she's got a question today for father mitch phyllis you're on the air with father all right father mitch thank you for taking my call oh sorry i'm a brand new catholic as of march 27th 2021 and it was conferred upon me i waited since nine years old i don't know what was wrong with me here's my question i seriously marcia said she called you mother martian you said have her come in um what i'm saying is being a former lutheran the term pastor was used for the reverend in the church however now i'm hearing the word pastor for the head priest of a parish and it's like i i thought i left those words back in the protestant world when did it first begin being used it was the the term pastor is used in the catholic church and has been used to at to designate a an office within the church so being pastor gives that particular priest a certain amount of authority in his parish about whom to permit to celebrate the mass or whom to permit to you know do weddings and have permissions for weddings and a number of other canonical issues and uh yet he is still called father it's just that he is the pastor of that church designated with certain authority over some issues just like a bishop is uh the the head pastor of the diocese but he's addressed as a bishop and uh what happened is that uh martin luther uh changed that he didn't want to be called father anymore uh as a matter of fact when i went i was doing some work last summer at the vatican archives uh also known as the secret archives not because they're filled with secrets but because the word secretum in latin means uh personal or private so i was in the the pope's private archives but there you know researchers are allowed to get material there well they let me see two letters hand written by martin luther and they've got his correspondence in the lot in the uh archives and i got to see two of them uh and in one he still called himself father martin luther and then in the last the later one about a year so later he was calling himself dr martin luther he i don't think he ever called himself pastor um he saw himself as a teacher a doctor uh but he made that transition and it was part of separating from the way the catholic priests were addressed and he did that because he rejected the idea of the of a priest being ordained a priest he held to the general priesthood of everybody which catholics also believe that everybody shares in the general priesthood of christ within the church but there are certain men designated to be ordained as ministerial priests and those the ones that we call father so uh that that was some of what was going on but that had been the case for a long time does that help it does because i'm saying i i left that that other life and i'm very happy in in god's church now can i ask you real quick yeah in mark 14 verse 51 something i had never noticed before although i've heard it my whole life there was a young man and guess in the garden when jesus was being arrested and he got so frightened he ripped off his linen cloak and he ran away naked well who was he most most commentators going back to the early church believe that it was mark himself so that it may well have been mark remember they met at the house of mark's mother and you know so he um that that's who most people think it was does that help all right thanks phyllis we appreciate the phone call today eight three three two eight eight three nine eight six is our toll free number eight three three two eight eight three nine eight six um yaroslav is watching us on youtube father and he says greetings from ukraine i want to at i want to ask what a holy tradition is is it catholic churches history rights or what okay um yaroslav um this is a a great question and know that we are praying for peace in ukraine um we we really pray for you over there and and pray that this any politics does not you know tear out the life of people but the tradition that the holy tradition refers to those truths that were taught by jesus to the apostles and then passed on by word of mouth from them to their disciples and there are lots of these uh traditions uh for instance it's a tradition to know which books were written by the apostles and therefore which books belong in the bible which do not that's from apostolic tradition and then how to celebrate the liturgy the you know all of us we have different rights but we have you know the readings from scripture the offertory consecration communion that's the way we all do it we follow that tradition so those are the ancient uh apostolic traditions it's open line wednesday with father mitch natasha hang on you're up next we'll also talk to linda mary and 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um i've tried anything i can to kind of see that i mean she's a mother of two and she's a great mother and i i can't really understand i mean i empathize with her situation but um a car or not having enough rooms in a house doesn't seem like a great reason to me um and i don't know if she'll go through with it tomorrow but if she does i'm not sure how i'll be able to trust her as a great friend if she doesn't see the value in her own child's life yeah and i just wanted help with that yeah yeah first of all is the father the child around yeah and he um is going to be taking her to the appointment um and driving her back if she yeah so okay he's kind of left it in her court yeah she okay this this is his child too it's a sec it's a second child it's their second child together okay and she has a child from a previous relationship she has yeah she she has one um daughter from a previous relationship there was another baby that um passed away at like 23 weeks and then she has now with her current marriage um a nine month old and now she's pregnant again can i ask you to do something that will take some heroic effort on your part but could you say to her um i tell you what i want you to wait on this decision i will go and find a couple who will be willing to adopt your child you don't have to if you can't handle raising this child i will find help you find someone who can raise this child ask her if she'll do that well her mother has already offered to adopt the baby and she's just not willing to go through any of it no yeah push her on that again there are people who uh whether it's her own mom and and there are so many people who would love to have that child they'd be delighted to to take their that child and raise them and yeah sure it's not easy to be pregnant it's not easy to give birth that's true but that will be something where they can not only prevent the death of that child's life but they will also be bringing great joy to somebody else and i and and believe me if i if that happens call back to ewtn and i will do what i can to help find a couple okay so that we'll you know i come across plenty of couples who would love to have a child so um find out and push her and tell her that uh we're praying i'm gonna seek the intercession of mother angelica don't cross mother angelica so um but tell her that we'll be and i'm sure there'll be plenty of people in my audience who are going to be praying and ask the husband to stand up a little bit more strongly for the life of his child he doesn't want to cross his wife i'm sure he does not want to make her upset i i can understand that but at the same time the upset will be long lasting for the rest of their lives if they go through with this they'll probably end up divorced just based on past experience um they can't sustain their own love if they can't love the child that they conceived okay say it to them like that okay thank you absolutely next up is mary in the great state of connecticut listening on veritas catholic radio mary thanks for holding welcome to the program oh thank you so much for taking my call i really enjoy listening every wednesday um my question is is it appropriate to receive communion at the rail in your hand um yeah there's nothing um you know it's there there's nothing uh prohibited from that and that you're allowed to receive in the hand if you prefer to kneel then um that's there's nothing improper with that at all again you know a lot of people prefer not to receive in hand but given you know especially with this new outbreak of another cove omicron strain people feel more nervous because it is spreading very very rapidly again and will be for the next few weeks the local doctors here in our health department here are saying that within another two or three weeks it'll start to decrease again but it's it's running rampantly and so people are very cautious um about contact so to receive in the hand but to do that sign of adoration and respect and worship by kneeling that would also be a good thing okay wonderful can i ask another quick question um go ahead we usually want to have only one question per person because a lot of persons go ahead okay um do you think jesus knew that he was going to go through all his suffering from a young age or well here's as much as i can say that i know he said in the second year of his mission that he was going to go through it and we predicted it three different times so and early on even with in talking to nicodemus at the start of the mission he knew it so i suspect that he knew it way before that okay next stop for us is the great state of minnesota diana's in minnesota listening on sirius xm channel 130 diane you are on with father mitch hi father mitch how are you i'm well thank you what can we do for you oh well this is this is a distinct pleasure for me to to get the chance to speak to you it's like getting a chance to talk to elvis [Laughter] i i am a candidate for the catholic church who went through rcia and all that lovely stuff um but i do have some questions that of course uh my one question is about uh something that occurs during the math and it's at the point of the mass where the priest will will recite the names of various paints right and um so my question is why does that happen and also why why those things what is the reasoning behind all this there are there are a couple different situations in which the names of the saints can be mentioned you know remember this is key to understanding it um the mass is the re-presentation of the death of christ on the cross right this is the core of what mass is about and when our lord was hanging on the cross dying one of the people standing there was the blessed virgin mary that's why she is mentioned in every single eucharistic prayer not only in the catholic church but also in the orthodox church she was at the cross and therefore as we uh you know bring back to ourselves the death of christ on the cross at mass we remember her but there were other saints there too including john mary magdalene some others and so we can include more than the blessed mother and this is chosen in two different ways one in the first eucharistic prayer the roman canon there's a traditional list of saints who were keys for the founding of the church including all the apostles and the first six or seven popes and then a number of the most important martyrs okay so that's why they're there most eggs and plary martyrs in the other eucharistic prayers of course our ladies mentioned and then recently because there's a need to include uh men in the the need for husbands to have a good example in saint joseph he has been added but then you can add the names of other saints who are the saints of the day today for instance is a feast day of a number of jesuit martyrs so when i celebrated mass earlier i mentioned melchior uh pongrach and grojetsky and you know a few others that we celebrate today and this is uh you know that's optional we can add those names but the idea and here's the key i want you to go and look up the mass prayer and read how right before mentioning those names we pray give us to some share in your heavenly kingdom with mary you're we're asking the lord to give us the grace to be able to become one of the saints we want to be in heaven along with them and like them so that's why we also include it it's a petition for asking the lord for the grace of faith and perseverance to get to heaven does that help that is perfect that i i've got some research ahead of me now so good that's the problem of asking me questions the answers are long and then i give homework god bless you thanks so much diane we appreciate that call 833 288 e ewtn is your ticket to the program 833-288-3986 that's the number joseph used in las vegas nevada watching us on youtube today joseph you're on with father mitch hi father mitch first of all thank you so much for taking my call i'm a maronite catholic from las vegas nevada i love saint jarville i'm a very big catholic but there are some disagreements i have on the church with and there's small disagreements there's nothing to do with theology it's more to do with astronomy and so one of them is easter day and so as you know easter this year is in the third sunday of april right and our orthodox coaches celebrate on another date right when is it about time that we decide both east and west we are going to find a common date for easter now yeah i had a proposal and i want to get your view on this of course if instead we revise nicea not in in a big way but we use the same method and instead unite both passover and easter and the orthodox church we can come out with a common date and um it doesn't make sense that there are years like 2035 where easter is on march 25th and passover and orthodox easter are on the same week and so to me it's just confusing the fact that there's just two dates and christ rose once and so the idea is right well can joseph can i jump in a second because one one of the things that is already being experimented with in the middle east your family's lebanese yeah well lebanese okay it because in jordan they have already come to agreement on celebrating the same christmas and the same easter they celebrate christmas by the roman catholic calendar both orthodox and catholics and then they celebrate easter by the greek orthodox calendar they they're working on they're seeing how that compromise works it's because it it is very important especially in the middle east which is predominantly muslim and it's it looks absurd to have two easter's and two christmases and such so this is one of the things that is being experimented with in the relatively small but very very vital and ancient christian communities of the kingdom of jordan and i i agree with you i hope that we do come up with a good way to work this out um the main difficulty is that the julian calendar is not quite as astronomically accurate as the gregorian calendar but the gregorian calendar is a later innovation and it's not the ancient calendar and that's one of the reasons why the that is the reason why the orthodox keep using the julian calendar and the catholics use the astronomically more precise calendar that you know the rest of the world has come to use because it is so precise so this was uh i agree with you i hope that it works out um uh you know so that we'll but we'll see um does that help yes that helps uh thank you so much thanks joseph we appreciate that call next up is laura in the great state of georgia listening on siriusxm channel 130. laura you're on with father mitch can you help me okay i hear you sorry about that i had perfectly step out particularly quick um so i am a candidate um i start rca this sunday my husband passed away november 30th and i'm sorry to hear that thank you um my question is i'm just talking to someone right now getting to know them is that wrong and what happens in heaven that he's been married before um if he's been married before is the other spouse still alive i'm talking about like me like he's not been very performing oh then you you are free uh do you remember i i don't what church were you in before this came okay and i've been to number baptist weddings and participated in them and they like we hold the same doctrine that uh that we add that this marriage lasts until death do you part and that at that point you are you know uh you know your marriage i mean that your love doesn't change but you know the marriage lasts until the death of one or both spouses and that's why you know the church oh and all the churches have agreed on this that uh after the death of a spouse you are free to marry again and so on um because it's just it's for in this lifetime um but after the death of one spouse the surviving spouse is totally free so um is the timeline what's bothering you laura yeah yeah yeah jack you have more experience with this i've i've never been married so i've never been widowed um but uh and it's um you know but there's nothing um that would be uh problematic with theology uh i think it's you know you dealing with some of your own hurt over the loss of your husband yeah and i think generally speaking you know you don't want to paint with too broad of a brush but i think that that these situations take a little more time with females to work out than they do with males and and you know november is a that's a pretty quick turnaround and uh um you know there's no hard and fast rule and as father mitch said you're certainly free of the bond because of the passing of your your former spouse but um boy before you before you got my way of thinking about this this is jack speaking not holy mother church but but you've got a whole year of anniversaries uh that you're going to be going through for the first time in a while without your spouse and you know might be maybe a good idea and a prudent idea to kind of you know travel through those anniversaries and see where you're at before you you got too terribly serious about anything i don't know how you feel about that father no well it's you know remember for me it's been 53 years since my last date um so there's a there's certain you know sensitivities that i i just don't have and i would trust your reflections on that because you've been widowed and does that make sense laura yeah it does you know and sometimes you're not even going to realize what's going to to hit you you know i had a a moment after my late wife susie passed uh you know she she passed it uh in the natural life she passed at an inopportune moment because you know it was it was a couple weeks before uh our youngest daughter's prom and six weeks before her graduation from high school and so we had plenty to keep us busy and uh you know and that kind of helped ease things a little bit and when i actually took her uh to school um in august after all of this after the summer uh on my way back you know it really you know things really kind of kind of kind of hit me hard at that moment and then i had another moment several months later when i completely unexpected uh you know went to a place in our hometown uh for the first time without her and didn't really give much thought at all until i got inside the building and and that was that was tough at that moment so there's just gonna be some things you know and i i don't i wouldn't hold yourself to a standard that'd be the other thing i would probably try yeah be gentle with yourself um you're not doing anything wrong that's right take it you know take it gently for yourself uh because there's a lot of different feelings going on and they're conflictual sometimes just be take it easy and you know be gentle uh toward yourself that would be my strongest urging god bless you laura and we'll keep you in our prayers for sure uh quickly we'll head to michael in tallahassee alabama listening on siriusxm channel 130 michael you're on with father mitch hi father how are you today fine thank you sir what's going on uh i just got a question i received a morning offering from the catholic company i receive it more every morning on december 12th there was a meditation that was put out that i'm very challenged with um the meditation is from st maria fostena and the meditation reads i am holy and i detest the smallest sin i cannot love a soul which is stained with sin but when it repents there is no limit to my generosity towards it my mercy embraces and justifies it and then it goes on with more mercy pursuing sinners the longer paths and the less sentences when will it be for me so i'm kind of cure i'm just kind of challenged with you know he detests the smallest sins and he cannot love the soul that has stained with sin uh jesus is supposed to love everyone right right um i don't understand that meditation that is trying to explain i don't uh i don't know that particular passage and um i i think that i would stick first of all with the the more basic principle that that would underlie anything uh which is that our lord does detest sin but he loves the sinners and you know that the next part of that um would be something that uh would certainly have the this sense of forgiveness and mercy you know filling it but it may well be that this is a clumsy expression um and i would stick prior to that the the love that christ showed sinners that were repentant uh and that he loves them uh uh infinitely even while their sin committing sin but he won't love the sin and if they cling to the sin then they they can't you know enter heaven but you know so i would stick with the more basic principles and just take it as maybe a clumsy expression uh it's not sacred scripture by any means so let's skip with you very quickly we'll head to sean in houston texas sean just about a minute left with father mitch what's your question all right father mitch um i just wanted to ask i have a friend who is a bible christian and he struggles with the perpetual virginity of mary sure the bible talks about jesus having brothers and sisters but also he brings out the argument that at the foot of the cross jesus gave mary to john and i i heard an apologetic uh uh mention that if jesus did have brothers and sisters that would be against the law yeah that's right now here's uh basically here's the thing look up the names of the brothers of jesus in mark chapter 6 verse 3 you see that it's james and josie's and you see that the mother of that james and jose's was standing at the cross and it's a different woman than the blessed mother her name was mary but she was the sister of the blessed virgin mary according to saint john chapter 19 from verse 30 and the wife of clopas so it's the the brothers of jesus are the children of mary and clopas not of the blessed virgin mary and joseph so it's a different set of folks father would you leave us with a blessing lord bless you all keep you the father son and holy spirit amen on behalf of our host father mitch pacquiao producer michael mccall call screener matt gubinski and our social media maven mr jeff person i'm jack williams thanks for tuning in back at it tomorrow until then god bless [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 53min 55sec (3235 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 19 2022