OPEN LINE WEDNESDAY -January 26, 2022 - with Fr. Mitch Pacwa

in this is open line with today's host father mitch paqua in north america call toll-free 1-833-288-ewtn that's 1-833-288-390 [Music] outside north america call 1-205-271-2985 you can also text the letters ewtn to 5500 send an email to openline ewtn.com well good afternoon this is father mitch pacqua and i'm unleashed left me alone jack has to go to some meetings and so i'm here without a monitor uh to keep an eye on me so we look forward to your calls coming in again it's uh 1-833-288 ewtn which new numerals is 3986 outside north america call to country code one two oh five two seven one two nine eight five text ewtn to five five zero zero zero or email openline at ewtn.com i guess you can ask a question on twitter if you go at ewtn radio and use hashtag openline i still don't know how to do any of that stuff all right so let's get some of your emails gerald says the ten commandments were are presented as being written on two cartouche stones the cartouche shape was a favorite of the egyptians yes does this suggest that the ten commandments were written in egyptian hieroglyphics no fairly simply um you know we as a matter of fact on this sinai peninsula there are found carved in various graffiti you know graffiti is not new this is very ancient and so there are graffiti written in what's called proto-semitic script it's a very early form of semitic writing and uh it's much more likely that uh some form of that early hebrew paleo hebrew uh is what it's written in but you know the use of the cartouche appears uh even in the rosetta stone they would put a cartouche around the names of pharaohs or kings and they did it when they if you are aware the rosetta stone is not an ancient computer program it was a stone found near the town of rosetta in the nile delta by the army of napoleon bonaparte and when he tried to conquer egypt and on there it's written in uh demotic hieroglyphics and greek and it was obviously three versions of the same words the greek was easy to read but hieroglyphs and demonic were unknown but they champollion a frenchman figured out that the cartouches surrounded the names of alexander cleopatra and ptolemy and they also were in the hieroglyphs and he made a surmisal that its names in the hieroglyphics and so those three names have the letter lambda in common which is the equivalent of our l and he noticed that in the l place on the names in the hieroglyphics was a letter that was the same in the l position so then he tried it with the other common letters and it worked out and that's how he cracked the code of being able to read hieroglyphics but that's because they had the cartouches around the names in greek as well as in hieroglyphics so that does not mean necessarily that a cartouche would require hieroglyphic writing all right donovan says the catechism states in paragraph 1515 that it is fitting to receive the anointing of the sick just prior to a serious operation would it be appropriate to receive the sack on the sick after a wisdom tooth removal or should the sacrament be reserved for something more life-threatening more serious i would go with a little bit more serious than a wisdom tooth removal but if the person say is diabetic and has some other complications then it may be appropriate because it would could be a more serious surgery to remove wisdom teeth uh so that's going to be um something that you might think about there um then joanna says i'm looking to purchase a latin vulgate bible a lot of options online do you have any advice how to uh find a reputable translation or publisher um you know that they're mostly going to be just fine i i don't think there's too much difference but there is one thing if your latin is decent then i would recommend that you take a look at the american bible society version of the vulgate for this reason they give a critical edition of what i mean by critical edition it compares the various manuscripts of the vulgate sometimes little errors can creep in to the later copies a classic example there was i've watched somebody criticize me for being overly clever when i wasn't particularly being clever i was simply reflecting what a critical text of the vulgate said in some of the latin vulgates it says that uh to the serpent that he will attack your heel and she will crush his head and that's not what it says in hebrew it's not what it says in greek and it's not what it says in the oldest copies of the vulgate it all of them say that the serpent's offsprings or seed the serpent seed will attack the seed of the woman's heel and he will crush its head so that the one who will strike the head of the serpent is the seed of the woman not the woman herself there is a seventh century manuscript from paris that changed it's a slight change uh it's a spelling error but it means makes up means something different and that paris manuscript is the origin of it being she um the person said father pak was being overly clever it's not really it's just a matter of taking a look at the manuscripts and comparing them trying to get the the best manuscript and uh that's why i recommend that american bible society critical edition but if you just want the vulgate to read it any one of them is going to be very good um so there and then uh this is from someone who doesn't want their name mentioned uh thank you for your faithful teaching it appears that catholic approved bible translations will not use red lettering for those portion described to be quoted to the words of jesus why do only protestant bibles put the quotes ascribed to jesus in red letters i have no idea uh i'm there's nothing doctrinal one way or the other it's simply an easy way to see the words by jesus um i i don't know what the catholic publishers are thinking um and i don't see any reason against it um but that's editorial decisions that they make so i can't explain it i just report it and then an older catholic filipina friend of mine came from a great catholic church in philippines used to teach in catholic schools she believes she is paying for the sins of her ancestors i'm not sure how she came to the starting conclusion do i uh do i correct this at all does it have a basis in the bible um katherina you know uh our lord uh for instance in the mayonnaise write this week we're reading from john chapter nine i would urge you to lead her to john 9 where jesus says to the apostles the man is born blind not because of anybody's sin but to show the glory of god you can't always ascribe something to past sin so that that's not wise i don't think so we'll come back with your call so please stay with us [Applause] from an early age st thomas aquinas contemplated the deeper mysteries of the universe he is a patron saint of catholic colleges universities and schools ewtn takes you to the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception in washington dc as the catholic university of america honors saint thomas aquinas on his feast day the patronal mass in honor of saint thomas aquinas thursday at 12 10 pm eastern on ewtn the tv of mother angelica today you don't think you have any sin there's no sin in the world today big sinners are excused if i were a man i'd be insulted today i'm a woman and i'm insulted today because women are not considered as women they're considered vehicles of pleasure and trash you can't go through with the channels even to get the news without seeing how women dress and how they're considered by the producers who produce their programs trash they're half dressed if they're half dressed they'd be happy they'd be well dressed if they were half dressed and you consider that something wonderful you don't even know when you're being insulted that's what's so bad for more information on mother angelica visit religious catalog at ewtnrc.com 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 1-205-271-2985 or send us an email to openline ewtn.com all right welcome back i believe we have marianne first mary ann you're there i'm here hi father hi fine you're in payson arizona i'm in tayson arizona well you my friend and i are up here visiting for the week so we go to math okay they recommend this chair and it's a beautiful mass i hope it's legit it's called i figure if anybody would know you would yeah it's called the the ordinariest under the auspices of the oh yeah anglicanorum coedibus right right okay what you talking about willis all right marianne this is uh the uh anglican usage it's not a right it's the inkling usage ordinaria this was established by pope saint john paul ii and a an episcopalian priest who had converted to catholicism and it is it is very beautiful any catholic can go and and receive the sacraments uh at that church it's actually a roman rite church but because so many of these converts were accustomed to the um uh anglican book of common prayer a form of that was adapted for catholic usage and approved by the pope in fact the priest went over to rome and he and pope saint john paul worked together on it they just sat there and you know made sure that it was all catholic and it's it's just beautiful the music is quite wonderful and you can you're certainly free to go there okay oh wonderful because we love it's just it is wonderful it is and i was wondering why they were all the priests were married i'm like what's with all the married freaks yeah well they they're converts they were married before they became catholic and then they uh this is an indulge that goes back to pope pius xii back in the 1940s uh it happened because so many lutheran pastors were entering the church and they they were pastors they didn't you know have other skills and they needed to provide for the family so an insult was given to let them get ordained as catholic priests after they became catholic okay and so this continues on all right thanks for calling about that let's now go to pat in colorado where in colorado are you pat in colorado springs father oh what i was hoping that because that's still one of my favorite cities oh god see i started grammar school over at columbus grammar school in colorado springs oh my goodness wow yeah a long time ago you weren't even born well oh yeah that's what you think father probably i'm older than you i don't know this was i started grand uh first grade in 1955. so you know okay so i started fifth grade in 1953. so first grade first grade in 1950 i was born in 1947. yeah okay all right you got me by a couple of two yes i'm sorry i do have you i i i don't mean to do that you don't have to be sorry it's it's not my fault or yours so what can we do for you today well father i i said this is a silly question probably from an equally silly person but i have been at adoration and find myself in the chapel alone and would love and have done to pray my rosary out loud and i'm not sure i should do that silly question why not i don't know there's no reason there's no reason that you can't and one of the nicest ones yeah one of the nice things about saying it out loud is that you slow down usually unless you're a fast talking yankee but when you speak out loud it is something that uh you know you can um you know be a little bit more slow and you know and that gives you a chance to meditate a little bit i'm i'm also taking a bible study class on the book of revelation and we just started and so in the first chapter about you know if you read it aloud you get special blessings and i wanted to think about it that way as well i do that that's totally fine totally fine don't worry don't be scared as my grandmother used to say thank you father come back to colorado springs we would love to have you thank you ma'am appreciate it all right let us now go over to ruth who is in grand island nebraska hi father how are you just fine how are you groovy see i'm still old enough to be groovy that takes me way back in the 60s yeah that's that's where i get it from so what can we do for you today okay uh remember the old saying or the same that god provided you do not take it is there any way anywhere in the scriptures that says god provides okay let me just take a oh wait wait wait uh a quick oh there are lots of places there's lots of places okay yeah yeah yeah uh so um you know all the way from genesis 22 uh verse eight abraham said my son god will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering and then in chapter 30 for the lord says to jacob for you had little before i came and has increased a multitude and the lord has blessed you wherever i turned but now when shall i provide for my own household also oh that's jacob trying to for uh provide for himself uh but also um and i'd have to go through all of the different uh uh situations um okay but there are plenty of places says gods will provide okay okay okay the reason why i ask is because a lot of people aren't taking this the shots and i tell people god provides that you don't take it and they says well that's not in the bible so that's the reason why i asked there's nothing in the bible about the taking a specific medicine that's not in the bible it's just talks about god provides for us and when you think of it none of us invented wheat or cherries or apples or squash or beans or any we didn't invent the food that we eat and we didn't invent the soil or the rain but uh to say that uh you know uh you know god uh provides uh uh and so you don't need to take or you should take uh either case uh to say you should take the the uh injection or you shouldn't take it that's not there you have to use other criteria and uh for uh dealing with that but that's not anything that god provided as such okay all right well that was easy let's go over to christopher in las vegas nevada christopher what's going on with you good afternoon father mitch how are you i'm well thank you very well what can we do for you today so i have a question about the polish national catholic church and its relationship to the roman catholic church yeah in what regard so there was a roman catholic priest here he resigned from the diocese he was incarnated in the polish national catholic church he came back to las vegas and he started a parish here and um he's a good priest and it's a a very um it seems very catholic to me but the bishop here has cautioned roman catholics not to attend uh his math right because uh he said that the um how did he put it the uh the sacraments are not valid and the church is not in communion with rome okay the polish national church is not in union with rome that's true it started in chicago uh the it was a very foolish decision by i believe an irish pastor who forbade a polish priest from preaching in polish now when it happened back in the early 20th century the mass was in latin and this pastor said oh they're in america now and they uh they got to speak english well that's dumb in my opinion they are in america and eventually their children and grandchildren will learn english but a lot of folks didn't and even as i was growing up my grandparents who were born in chicago still wanted to go to mass and hear a sermon in polish because they were more comfortable they liked it better and there's nothing wrong with it well at any rate the the polish priest being polish was somewhat stubborn it's national sin so uh that's what my mother always said to partner um they call me stubborn pole um at any rate she um he started this church he got ordination through the old catholic church which was another systematic group from europe in the 1800s that came right after the first vatican council and they the polish national catholic church had bishops ordained by these old catholic bishops so they were actually valid orders as far as i know but not legitimate not listed so they were ordaining bishops without permission from the papacy and that was wrong and it is systematic and the polish national catholic church is not in communion with us you should not your bishop is right you should not receive the sacraments there as good as the guy is he was very disobedient he had given a promise of obedience to the bishop he didn't keep it so um that you should not go in but that's a little bit of what you got there be back in just a couple of minutes after this break it's amazing how uplifting god's word is he reveals that life has a purpose that our sufferings don't come to stay they come to pass that we can do all things through christ who strengthens us that his love defines us not our flaws saint paul had an amazing attitude in prison want to know why because he preached those truths to himself all the time and whenever self-defeating negative thoughts popped up he choose to dwell on the word of god instead listen not every one of your thoughts gets to vote not every one of them matters not every one of them is valid but god's word always is and he didn't reveal his word to you so you'd wait for someone else to preach to you in hard times he revealed his word to you so you start preaching to yourself you know whose job it is to remind you of the truth yours if you're always looking to everyone else to do that job for you you're going through life way too needy preach the truth to yourself this is chris defending from reallifecatholic.com this is father mitch pacquiao if you missed part of today's show catch the encore tonight at 10 eastern check out the podcast anytime at ewtnradio.net and click podcasts faith is a precious gift from god as the largest religious media network in the world ewtn has an important role in educating others about our catholic faith and spreading the good news of salvation we invite you to explore our numerous pages of historical faith documents prayers teachings and other current issues in catholicism today visit ewtn.com and click catholicism ewtn the global catholic network [Music] matt swaim here tomorrow on the sunrise morning show will celebrate the feast of saint angela morici founder of the ursulines and talk bible foods with certified herbalist rita heikenfeld now back to open line with father mitch pacquiao 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 or send us an email to openline ewtn.com all right we are back with callers we have jamie from lexington kentucky jamie hi father how are you hi how are you fine what can we do for you um i just had a question about the trinity um i always have a just a hard time wrapping my mind around to the three persons one nature so all have always always existed without beginning but the son being begotten of the father and that father-son relationship you know just how that all works together with all three persons so you're having a tough time understanding that yeah good because i guarantee you as was explained to me when when i was going through theology if you think you resolved the problem that usually indicates that you are leaving some element out once it becomes easily comprehensible to our little minds then you're probably leaving some factors out so that so that's actually a good sign that's why saint augustine was contemplating the trinity and trying to figure it out himself and he was walking along the beach in north africa and he saw a little kid digging a hole and taking a bucket and putting water into the hole so he said to the kid what are you doing he said i'm trying to put the ocean into this hole and he said you can't do that that can't happen he said well this is easier than you trying to figure out the blessed trinity so that that that gets at it but is there some particular aspect that you are considering here yeah i guess just the relationship of the the son to the father if they both always existed how that there's that relationship yeah you know there any anything that we say about the blessed trinity uses analogies right and uh one of the analogies from the scripture is that jesus is the word that is god and was with god from the beginning right and if you think of it this way and this how saint augustine uh did express it in his absolutely wonderful treatise day trinitati or on the trinity he said that uh the father the son is the word the father is the speaker but this is a word that was always spoken the father was always speaking and the word is the self-knowledge if for instance you and i use words to describe ourselves i can use words to describe myself as someone who was originally born in chicago those are words and it describes myself think about the sun as the eternal word who was always the expression the self-expression of the father and it is an infinite uh and eternal self expression by the father and he has always been the infinite knowledge of the father and there's no moment at which the father did not know himself we use the other analogy from human life of begetting but it you know this is a tougher one for us because we often think of it in terms of the way we humans beget our children and so there is a time sequence but with god there's no time sequence there's no distinction between uh the the time that they're both completely eternal and you know i don't know um you know in kentucky there's some places you've been that are extraordinarily beautiful because it's a beautiful state i hope people visit your wonderful state but there are all sorts of natural wonders around the world and in our country and sometimes you can just with a natural wonder you say how can that be but it's there and some of it you can understand some of it you just can't really grasp how these natural wonders exist but you still can enjoy them and oftentimes with the blessed trinity we do better to start off simply in saying lord i don't i can't comprehend this this is beyond my mind and the mind of anybody but i'm going to contemplate it and as i contemplate this mystery it becomes something that fills me with newer and deeper wisdom you know pope saint john paul for instance in contemplating the trinity began to understand better that the three persons are co-equal and have the same dignity and since we're made in their image and likeness we also have a personal dignity given to us by god in his image and likeness and he reflected a lot on that we do better to instead of trying to do the you know how exactly this fits to take and understand uh you know or contemplate it and let the various aspects of the mystery teach us um are you married yeah and do you fully understand why your husband does some of the stuff he does no yes no oh no no no no no no and and uh yeah and i can assure you he doesn't understand why you do things that you do it's it you know this is the way it is with men and women you know that we we think how odd you know the way women do things or the way men do things but the attraction and love of the to that person draws in that even without understanding um you know i've seen lots of elderly couples sort of shake their head and just say i don't know why he does that i just love him and you know a lot of times that's a good model for us to on how we deal with god's mystery we don't really understand it but in the loving of that person that mystery transforms us just like your husband has an effect on the way you think and act and you have an effect on the way he thinks and acts just by not understanding it but by living and loving uh that mystery i think that's a fair analogy does that help yeah thank you very much you're welcome let us now go over to dennis who is in nueva georg dennis hello hello father mitch and good afternoon to you good afternoon to you too what part of new york are you in i'm in carmel it's just above new york city and uh that last call is question segways into mine okay uh i feel the holy spirit is moving this because i have a an issue the church we have to get the word out to catholic men that they cannot join the freemasons right i'm stunned at the amount of catholic men i talk to that are masons and they don't realize they could be excommunicated to that because the masons do not believe jesus is the son of god right they do not believe in the trinity as your last caller was asking about so uh i'm gonna go into a dead zone in a few minutes on my phone but i can listen on the radio in my car but please address this father and how do we get the word out to the men and the pews they cannot become masons yeah great dennis um yet membership in the masonic lodge has been prohibited to catholics practically since the lodge started the the masonic lodge started in 1715. and uh in britain and by the time it got to italy uh and to the continent uh the the pope condemned it that condemnation goes back to 1736 within 21 years or so of the founding of the masons and there are a wide variety for instance you mentioned some of them that their doctrine is not that of christianity in fact my mind is boggled that there are so many evangelical [Music] ministers who belong to the masonic lodge i remember reading a few years ago that about 7 000 out of 10 000 baptist preachers are masons i i don't get it i don't understand why they would uh accept that because it is a compromise of the faith they believe in the bible alone but a mason can take his o's on a quran or on the old testament alone or on the whole bible new and old testament because they basically see doctrines from the religions as less relevant to than the doctrines of the masonic lodge um and i strongly uh you know i've talked actually i appreciate you calling about this but i've i've spoken a number of times over the years that membership in the lodge is incompatible with our catholicism and they've opened up to allow catholics in and some folks think that it's simply you know something like the moose or a social club but i would urge guys who want to belong to a society a society of men that you join the knights of columbus they are adamant in their catholic faith and they promote the catholic faith and part of becoming a member includes knowing the catholic faith better so you know that is a great alternative the other thing too is the masonic odes are death odes that they they have an oath that if they reveal the secrets of the masonic lodge that they draw a line across their neck and then they make a cross on their uh stomach and and lower belly indicating that if they break if they reveal the secrets of the masonic lodge they can be cut from ear to ear and also disemboweled you may not take that kind of a death oath you may not do that this is forbidden to us that's a vain oath as well as the content so these are some of the things that i would urge people to stop doing all right let's get over to amanda in cleveburg ohio cleveland ohio the detroiters used to call cleveland um amanda what can we do for you hi father um i have a question about offering a prayer a specific prayer like a rosary for multiple intentions if if you have an important intention say like you have a relative who's fighting cancer or something you want to offer the rosary for them but you also have kids that you're worried about growing up in this world and all these other things and you tack on all those intentions is the rosary less effective for the major one of the relative with cancer no do your intentions get watered down i guess because of the multiplicity no no no not at all you know every time you say a hail mary you say pray for us sinners you can include as many people as you want in the us and you say give us this day our daily bread you can include any of as much as you want in the us okay you know include the whole church if you want that's okay yeah yeah yeah no no no no no you remember god is infinite and when we talk about the blessed trinity we talked about him being infinite and eternal but you know his in his infinity he you know treats all of our prayers uh with infinite attention it's not like you can distract him he's not one of your kids that you can distract very easily isaac you know that's all i have to say then they're oh i want one i want one um you know it no no god pays infinite attention to each petition you give him okay yeah don't don't worry about that at all all right amanda thank you father absolutely let us now go over to chris in yakima washington chris what do you have here well thank you for taking my call father i'm interested in understanding and studying hebrew i i'm not sure where to start i know there's biblical there's modern uh i'm interested in you know in relation to the old testament okay but i'm not sure how deep uh i'm capable of going you understand well can i make a couple suggestions then yes i'm hoping you will i'm hoping you have some uh even some books yeah yeah there uh i would do a combination of things there is uh the the book that i used to use for my introductory hebrew class was by menachem mansour m-a-n-s-o-o-r and okay i forget it's some like hebrew one and hebrew two i mean it's it's a very prosaic uh title but uh and i believe it's published at least it used to be published by the university of wisconsin i found that to be very learner friendly there are more detailed uh grammars and and teaching tools uh thomas lambda is very very thorough but it is not easy to teach from that i would i would use lambda for hebrew two but for hebrew level one i would use menachem it explains things very nicely okay and what you may want to do is also go online and you if you look in your app store on your phone look up learning hebrew you'll see a number of options that will be interactive uh you know for the for many people the first difficulty is in learning how to read hebrew letters right right and i've i've taken a class and i know a little bit about that but i didn't get very far okay well you know some of these uh interactive apps are very very useful um for modern hebrew you can try duo lingo i've used that to i i brush up on a lot of my older the the languages i've studied in the past and just going over it helps like uh that their arabic course just helped me to read arabic more easily okay that's a tough language to read it's harder than hebrew frankly okay so the biblical hebrew i'm guessing that's that would be okay okay that's the one i'm interested in yeah yeah i mean and again it depends on how deeply you get into it you know introductory levels are not that bad with modern with biblical hebrew but once you start getting into you know some of the difficult poetic passages for instance then you need a little more help but that that'll come later but start off with menachem and then after that you can check on the commentaries all right great let us now go a little bit closer than yakima washington let's head over to the great city of hotlanta georgia how are you jim hey father mitch how are you fine what can we do for you okay first i want to say thank you for uh all the work you do for saying uh preaching the truth and staying orthodox so we appreciate that very much that's a grace from god um one comment before i ask my question um there was a talk about the freemasons i saw a youtube video that you did one i think it was in australia um and that was excellent so you can look that up if they want okay good i don't i don't know what it's called or where to find but you can't cover it either you probably can look up paqua and masons lord have mercy um my question for you is that um we have the seven sacraments but one of the things that christ did in the bible quite a bit was exorcism right so exorcism is a sacramental yes but not a sacrament right why well because you know again a um a a sacrament is an outward sign instituted by christ to confer grace and in this case exorcism is not counted as one of the seven sacraments by anybody not the orthodox and not by us it is a sacramental be that is oriented towards freeing a person from having control of their free will by demonic spirits that's that's the goal of it so it's not something that confers grace it rather liberates somebody from demonic oppression so that's a different kind of action and you use that when necessary being an exorcist was a minor order now it's included uh within diaconate uh uh well it was a minor order on its own um this is um something that has just never been considered a sacrament uh that christ instituted to tell us to go and do this okay good enough for me all right it's gonna do for me too let us then go to cheryl in lake havasu arizona just up the river from my younger sister so cheryl what you got well you're one of your caller brought up the subject of the holy trinity and i need to know if father michael gavey was correct about this all of creation goes forth from the trinity and then returns back to the trinity making one big circle movement that the theological theologians call the great circle of being is that correct um i've never heard that in regard to the trinity in any way do you know which theologian may have said that uh no i do not sorry about that father but no i do not the only thing that father michael gaitley drew out was a big circle um theological circle of the holy trinity that the trinities and the creation in the fall and then back up to the redemption the glorification then the trinity again see how he put it i know of that from thomas aquinas where he talks about the exetus redditus that is we come forth from god in order to return to him through those very acts of redemption that you mentioned there that god we came forth from god in creation and by through the means of redemption we are able to return to god i've never heard that called the great circle of being um i just am from unfamiliar with that as a term but certainly we do come from god where his creatures and he intends to return us to himself through the redemption all right and we have run out of time god willing will be here next week until then may the lord bless you and keep you the father the son and the holy spirit have a wonderful week wherever you are [Applause] you

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