Oct. 2, 2025

The Catholic Church believes in mystics and mysticism, so why do Catholics have trouble believing

The Catholic Church believes in mystics and mysticism, so why do Catholics have trouble believing
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The Catholic Church has long believed in mystics and mysticism, but a large number of Catholics struggle with mystics and mysticism.  Yes saints are popular, but events and occurances not easily explained leave Catholics struggling to believe.  Many put god in a box, and like everything structured like the mass is.  Catholics need to enjoy everything god has to offer, even if it is out of their comfort zone.

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Waiting the day that sounds I'm gotta get to the Starbucks,

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get some magic, be on my way. Magical as was

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my bon. We don't know. There's no for that today.

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Well, hi there, and welcome to these days with Jeff

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and Steph. I am Jeff and she's gonna be Steph,

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and we're gonna be coming at these days from a

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Catholic perspective. Steph, how are you doing today?

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I like how you say. I'm Jeff and she's going

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to be Steph. That's good because I know how to

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be that. I'm just not learning, but that's good. Well,

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I've had a very mystical day, and so it's cool

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that we decided to talk about the mystics today. Yeah,

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how are you? How's things going up there?

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Pretty good? Just sitting there kind of just trying to

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get in a routine. It's one of those things I

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just can't get in a routine, if that makes any sense.

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Totally.

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Yeah, man, I just wanted you know, you know, every day, Oh,

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I hate being in a routine, you know, to break

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up the routine. Well, I'd like to be in a

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routine for one I'm with you knowing that. Hey, this

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afternoon I'm going to do this this morning, I'm going

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to do this this evening. I'm going to do this. No,

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it's like, okay, I have no idea what's coming.

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Well, sometimes that can be fun and exciting that you

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kind of embrace the unknown.

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Yeah, until of a sudden you look back and realize

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that there's a lot of stuff you should have done.

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Oh now, this isn't deep. This isn't deep or anything

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like that. It's just something, you know, you getting all

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into the mysticism and all the prophecy and all that

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kind of stuff, and you get really deep or I'm

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kind of shallow. So we're going to start off with

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something shallow before we dive deep. How does that sound?

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That sounds good. Let's let everybody warm up. Okay.

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Do you think God hates fish?

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No? I think he likes them. I think Jesus ain't

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a lot of fish, right, I know.

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But you think about it in the Bible. The reason

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we're talking about this is I have a big fish

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tank and I'm having trouble getting the augie under control,

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even though I have a big p costumers. But I

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was sitting there thinking about fish in the Bible. You

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think about it in the Bible, he says that Jesus

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says that you know, if a sparrow falls out of

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the sky, you know, God will know. But meanwhile, then

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he's got them guys pulling off fish. They're flopping all

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over the deck and all this kind of stuff. It's like,

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you know, you don't ever hear anything good about fish

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except they sustain you.

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That's true. And I don't know. I mean my own

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personal opinion, this is not biblical at all, but I

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think like some animals have more of a heart to

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be able to like reflect love back to you, and

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maybe fish, I don't think fish do. So maybe that's

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maybe they actually are here just for our nutrition.

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I don't know, when you think about it, I mean,

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all the big kills and you know, lakes and ponds

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and the ocean and rivers, what's the one thing happening

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fish kill? Boom, all these hundreds of thousand fish dead

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and every oh that sucks. Now, if you had one

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hundred thousand birds or deer or dogs die, everybody'd being

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an uproar. But nobody thinks really second thought about right,

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I know.

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Well except for all the Actually there is a lot

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of animal abuse in the world and something that's bothered me.

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Since I was a little kid, I didn't pray for

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people so much. But when I was my earliest memories

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of praying and I was little, I remember praying to

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God for the animals and just to please protect and

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help all the animals. I would think about the animals

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that were outside, that were cold and hungry. And I

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don't know, if He gave me a heart to love animals,

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then he must love them. I guess that's how.

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I think, right, And I mean, we do have the

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fish logo that people put on their bumper stickers.

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Yeah, go fish for men.

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But I don't know, it just seems like out of

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all the creatures, fish are the kind of the ones

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that get kind of the chef. They're just kind of

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the ones here here are just for eating.

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You're right, I think that's true because.

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I mean, I don't know, this is so many of them.

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I don't know how God could possibly know when well,

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I mean he would know. But you know what I

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mean about the sparrow analogy versus a fish, right, I.

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Mean, I do think there's different levels of love that

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they fell. I mean, obviously, a dog loves you more

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than a fish and love you, I think, don't you.

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Yeah, And we're talking fish, we're not talking like mammals

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like whales and dolphins and you know all that kind

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of stuff, right, So I don't know. This is something

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I was wondering about. You don't hear anything good about

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fish other than that they'll sustain you well.

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And he multiplied him, so he does think that it's

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good for us to eat fish. Apparently.

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Oh he did glorify fish one time, and he didn't

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really glorify him. When him and Peter needed to pay taxes,

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he said, go catch a fish and then the money

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will be in the fish's mouth.

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That's true, that's true. And he paid the five thousand

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with fish.

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So but you think about it when you talk about like, well,

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let's take all the other animals. When they would be sacrificed,

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you know, they would have to have the pure ones,

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and they'd have this whole routine and the right knife

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and you had to cut it just right and all that.

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You know, they're not doing that with fish. They're just there,

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you go.

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I know, And I guess I don't know. If I

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don't know, I don't understand that whole sacrifice thing because

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I love birds, and I love doves, and he was

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asking people to sacrifice doves and you know, goats and

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all that. Maybe he didn't consider fish much of a sacrifice.

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I don't know.

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I don't think he did. That's why I asked him recently,

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do you think God hated fish?

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I think he just didn't hold him to very as

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high self as esteem.

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I guess, because think about it, Catholics were punished all

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through then we can only eat fish on Friday, so

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that's punishment.

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Well, they are really good for you.

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They are good for you too, and actually now and

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now they're actually I don't know. I think it's that

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once you get older. I think that maybe that's how

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you know you're an adults, once you can eat fish,

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because a little kid, unless it's fish sticks, you're not

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eating them.

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Yeah, I'm still not crazy about fish. That's hard for me.

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So what we're going to talk about is the mysticism

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and Catholics and well mysticism in general. But we're going

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to kind of go with the Catholic point of view.

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And one time, you know, we're kind of rigid. I mean,

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I think most of us out there know the Catholics

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and they're pretty they think the Protestants are way out there, man.

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And I'm not talking the net jobs of snakes. I'm

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just talking look at these people singing and dancing and

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all this kind of stuff. And then one time you

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had said that you thought that the Protestants actually embraced

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mysticism more than the Catholics did, And I was wondering,

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do you think that could be because the Catholic Mass

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is kind of stoic, you know, it's kind of just

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no nonsense and all this kind of stuff. So there

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it seems really straight line where they help. It makes

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us so the brain can't really kind of think outside

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of the box, so to speak.

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Maybe because there's not a lot of personal you know,

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you don't put your own personal flare into the Mass.

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You're there, you know, it is structured, like you said, structure.

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But what's interesting to me is like that the rich

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history we have of Catholic saints and mystics that we've studied,

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most Protestants don't even know about. The majority of Protestants

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haven't even heard of a lot of these like you have.

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You know, John of the Cross and Saint Catherine of

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ablon Uh and even Saint Therez whose fist was yesterday,

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Saint Faustina, major saint in our tradition. All of them

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were either tested for being crazy or thought of as

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crazy they you know, because they had all these ecstasies

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or visions, or they were just having supernatural experiences with

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God all the time because they were so close to God.

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And to me, that's natural if you're close to God

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and you will have an intimate relationship with him. They've

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shown us it's natural to have these visions and dreams

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and experiences and ecstasies. And even Saint Joseph of Coopertino

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and who there's lots of them that would John of

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Arc Yeah, I mean she was. She was called crazy

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because she said she saw archangel Michael, and but she

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won a war with like seven people. You know. I

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was like, so we have It's just crazy to me?

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How I don't I don't get it unless it's like

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a testing. God allows totally just increase the faith and

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make them stronger. Of these mystics. So He's giving them

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all these supernatural experiences because they're seeking Him with a

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pure heart, I think is they're really seeking him one

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hundred percent.

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But then you got the priests who can actually do exorcism,

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which is totally mystical, and pretty much all Catholics believe

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in that the priests can do. And that's kind of

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funny because in the Protestants, if there's a hunting, they

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want a Catholic priest to go. You know, everybody believes

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that that priest is going to get that haunting taken

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care of, right.

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And most priests will say they don't have the gift

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of like visions and a whole lot of supernatural stuff

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because I think they do see demons sometimes. I mean

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the ones I've talked to will occasionally see demons, but

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they don't have a lot of healing or like mystical

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gifts because I don't. I think it would be too

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much for him. I mean, they're dealing with the demonic

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day in and day out. So, like I know, Father

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Reheal has said, I'm not one of these charismatic priests

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that can just have all these mystical experiences. I'm just

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you know, I think a lot of them are very pragmatic,

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but they need to be do what they do.

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Okay, well, you came from the Protestant and now you're

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the Catholic, So what are some of them? And you

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talk about it, you maybe because you were opened up beforehand,

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you're actually more open to when a mystical experience happens

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to you. So what are like, when did you first

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start experience mystical experiences?

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And I wouldn't say Protestants, I wouldn't. I say Protestants

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are more open to I think talking about spiritual warfare

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and to the prophetic and understanding that people have prophetic gifts.

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I don't know a lot of Protestants that have had

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a lot of truly mystical experiences. I do know a

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couple of priests, and I ran into one today. I

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don't know. I guess God makes us the way he

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does for a reason, but a lot of it's because

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of the suffering I've been through. You know, just when

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you have suffered a lot and you've been purified a lot,

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and you really have you're seeking I guess it purifies you.

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So you're seeking God with the pure heart and you're

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really given your own will to him. And I don't

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know if you just feel sorry for you too. He's like,

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let me, man, this girl's been through a lot and

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been falsely accused and a lot of people that you know,

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what he's brought to my mind even lately, is that

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a lot of people in my life that have been

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close to me don't even really see me for who

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I am. They don't even see the good in me.

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He ails you sometimes He doesn't allow people to see

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the good in you, which is obviously why they would

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accuse of somebody so pure like Saint Faustina and made

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her go through two realms of psychiatric.

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Yeah, well what made you first, because I'm just a

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regular person might think it sounds a little goofy or something,

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But what made you first embrace the fact that you

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think that God does communicate to you through birds, Well.

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It's because they were coming up to me and you

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feel it, and you know there's something not normal. I mean,

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you know when a bird's just flying around and you

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see them up in the trees. That's just normal to

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see birds around. And then you get a feeling. Well,

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there's always a feeling that goes along with it, and

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you know when God's communicating to you, So like when

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birds start really coming up to you, and it's always

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in crucial times in my life. So the first time

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it happened was when, like I said, right before my

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mom and dad died, that the birds would come and

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line up on my windows window sill and kind of

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squawk at me to get that. I could tell they

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were trying to get my attention, And at that time

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I did think it was weird and I really didn't

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get it. I didn't know why. But I hadn't even

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had my experience of Jesus on the cross yet or Mary.

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So as I've gone, you know, Jesus is patient with

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us as I've gone. I mean, especially through this last

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couple of years. The birds have come up to me.

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Now they haven't come up to me over here at

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my new place, which is interesting, and I keep asking

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God why. But there is a bunny. There's a bunny

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behind out back, and it's not normal. I can go

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right up to this bunny and it won't hop away.

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It just sits there, and it's there every night and

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it waits for me. So I don't have birds over here.

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I have bunnies.

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And mean me tell you why I think you don't

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have birds? Yeah, because think about what time of year

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it is. The birds they've all flown south because it's

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a different season. And where you're at right now, it's

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a totally different season. So the birds aren't aren't there

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because of a changing.

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No, I see them there here. I see them. They're

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just up in the trees. They're not coming down and

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talking to me.

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Those are the regular ones and not like the hummingbirds

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and stuff like that and go down south.

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Yeah, but I was seeing the cardinals were coming right

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up to me. The doves. I had a really profound

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experience with a couple of doves to the point where

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I saw a red cross on her chest and it

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became bloody. And there's doves all around here. I see

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them every morning. There's tons of duves, but they don't

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come up to me over here. I think it's because

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I already got the message. I think there's certain periods

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God has elevated me. Here's what's happened. God has elevated

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me to getting messages from priests now, so he's like

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taking a message. Birds are messengers and even considered messengers

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in the Bible. But like so today I told you,

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I'm gonna wait till to the show to tell you

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what happened to me today. So I felt pretty spiritually

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attacked for the last couple of days, and then I

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knew I had to go get blood work this morning,

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and I was dreading it, and I didn't really want

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to go because it's expensive and I don't have insurance,

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and I haven't had insurance all year, and I've been

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kind of feeling angry and bitter about that. Won't go

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into all that, but something told me, go ahead, go

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keep your appointment. So I did, and I get there

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and it's at Saint Thomas Hospital, and I didn't know,

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you like I know when God's speaking to me. I

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parked on a level I never park on. I usually

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go up two three levels, but for some reason, I

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parked on the very main level where you drive in

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and it's the basement level and it's the blue level.

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So I go up there. I park. I go up

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there and they're putting all my information in and they're

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telling me it's going to be like this huge amount

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of money and more than what I expected. And I'm like,

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I don't know. I'm like, I don't know if I

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want to do this. And then her computer goes down

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and she was just she's like, I'm so sorry, this

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never happens. She was like, this is going to take

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thirty minutes, Steven, get this back up and get all

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this rein or. She was so mad. She was like,

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this never happens. And another lady came over that worked there,

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and they were like, We've never seen this happen. It

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never our computers never go down. Well, I could feel

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God saying I don't want you to get the blood work.

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This is so interesting because if it had happened any different,

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it wouldn't have happened. So I said, I think I'm

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just gonna wait. I'm like, that's okay. I'm sorry to like,

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I think I'm just gonna not get blood work today.

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And she's like, okay, I'm so sorry. It's fine, you know,

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no big deal. And I was telling her I don't

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have insurance. She's like, oh, this is very expensive. I understand.

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So I'm leaving and I'm just like mad. I'm like,

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why did I have to come all the way down here?

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And I'm just thinking about my life and all these scenarios.

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I walked outside, walk into the parking garage, and I

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nearly run right into like literally run right into the

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priest that is very holy that my friend father Phi

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actually said, yeah, he's the best kept secret in Nashville.

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One of the holiest priests I've ever met. He prays

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for people that heal instantly. He's from India and he

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was with my friend and he's the one that came

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over and blessed my house three days after I've been here,

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that I didn't even ask to come, And that was

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the first day I ever met him. I hadn't even

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met him until that day. So I run into him

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in the parking garage on the bottom level and he

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was coming from an eye doctor appointment. And my friend

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drives him around because he gets stressed out and he's

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from India and he doesn't like to drive. So anyway,

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I run into them and I know there's for a reason.

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They're like hey, I'm like, I'm just so mary because

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I don't have insurance and I needed blood work and

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my friend was like, you want Father Jes and rush

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to why don't you sit in here her car and

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pray for a minute. And my friend hears God's voice

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very cleuely. She's got very strong prophetic gifts, and she

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goes and why don't you, Stephanie want don't you go

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ahead and do confession with him? I knew. God told her.

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I had been trying to get to confession for a

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couple of weeks and I just keep putting it off,

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and you know, the devil convinces you, well, it's not

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a major sin, you don't have anything major going on.

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And every time I try to get there, it's like,

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well I missed it and it was already it was

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just you know, different times, and it's not convenient for me.

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But I knew. God told her, and I said, can

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you do confession outside of the confessional without your thing on?

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I don't know what do you call that that they

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put on a stole or whatever. And he said, yeah,

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I can. I can do it here. I do it

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all the time. He goes, I do car confessions all

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the time, and I was like, okay. So she leaves

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and we sit there and talk about my life. I

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do confession, and he gives me the most pointed advice.

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You would think he knew my life story. And I've

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told him very little about my life. I mean, you

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know way more about my life than he does. But

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I will I'm not going to share everything. But he

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did make it a point this is probably for a

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lot of people, he said, and he was so sweet.

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He told me, when things present theirself to you, I

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want you to call me. He said, get my number

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from her, from your friend. And he said when these

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He told me, certain situations are going to be coming

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up in my life. And he said, and I want

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you to call me because we need to pray about

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it and I'll guide you. And he said, I want

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you to understand that a woman that has as kind

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and pure and warm of a heart as you can

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be easily taken advantage of. And he said, you don't

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like to think it, but there are men out there

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who just want to get what they want from you.

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And I'm not talking about sex, but I'm talking about

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like they might want you to do something for them,

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or sign a paper or do this or do that.

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They're trying to benefit somehow from you. And he said,

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somebody with this kind and warm because I hate to

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say it, that our mend that will manipulate you if

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they haven't had a true conversion. And any guy that,

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he basically would let me know, any man that I'm

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going to deal with, he wants to make sure they

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are truly converted and have given their self over to

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Christ and have a pure and clean heart. So he

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basically sat there and prayed with me and told me,

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before I make any decisions about things coming up in

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my life to call him and we need to pray.

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How crazy is that? Right?

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When you needed to see him?

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Right? And if I had come out five minutes earlier

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or later, or not been there, if I had gotten

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the blood work done, I wouldn't have seen him.

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Yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Pretty crazy?

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Huh, Yeah, it is. So one thing I think I

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have a problem with not misssism the theory unit, and

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I think that's cool, and I don't really understand a

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lot of it, but I like it. But the one

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thing that I have with is how you know when

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it's not the devil playing games with you.

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Well, that's a really good question. You do have to

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have discernment, and you don't always know that. I mean,

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the quick answer is you don't always know. Like even

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Saint Faustina, Jesus told her right down on all of

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your experiences with me, and she has spent I think

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a year writing a diary. And then the devil tricked her.

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I think he appeared as Jesus and said this was

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all nonsense or something, and he tricked her into tearing

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it up and destroying her journal. So even a saint

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can be fooled by the devil. So and then so

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she rewrote it. She spent like another year trying to

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rewrite it and remember everything. And I think we have

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to be very careful to pray about That's why Father

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Jesuars was saying this, We have to be very careful

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to really pray about things and take them back to

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God ask him for confirmation. I think God always is

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happy to confirm things. He's not a god of confusion,

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and he doesn't want us to fall for the tricks

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of the devil. The devil's always going to be there

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trying to fool you and trick you and mislead you

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and misguide you.

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If you think about asking God to confirm things, then

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that kind of show I agree with you, But then

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that kind of also show your lack of trust in God.

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You know how you're supposed to trust God? Just blatant.

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But then if you Okay, God, you told me to

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do this, but no, I need to check. Are you

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sure you want me to do that? Kind of sounds like.

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No, because the Bible actually says you need to confirm

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the word and want you to take things back to

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him in prayer, and don't say it out loud because

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the devil can't hear your thoughts. I mean, there's been

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times that I've prayed, Okay, God, I'd like you to confirm.

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If this is really your will and you want me

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to do this, then confirm it in this specific way,

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and he will. He always does. One way he likes

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to confirm things is why he had me start journaling

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every morning. So every morning I'll write things down, and

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I don't even know why. There's like words I write,

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Like this morning, I literally I wrote epitaph, and then

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I wrote spindle, and then I wrote lightning Rod, and

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then I wrote Tarmac. So I'll write things that don't

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make any sense to me at all. But then later

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on I'll see a prophetic video and they'll say that

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they'll mention it'll be a story involving one of the

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words I wrote, and then I know the messages for me.

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So I think the more you don't put God in

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a box, the more he will confirm things to you

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in extraordinary ways. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool being

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on on an adventure with God.

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Yeah, I agree with you. It's just kind of like

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at leish people would just let their guard down more

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often and just kind of accept the weirdness. I guess

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you would go but the unknown that things that don't

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make you comfortable and kind of like just realize that, Okay, yeah,

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that's God.

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Yeah, because if you're gonna, if you're gonna put God

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in a box, then you're not really going to experience

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very much of him really because you think about it,

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think how big he is. I mean, he's huge. We

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can't fathom how big he is. And you really, if

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you're gonna put him in a box, then you're gonna

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miss out on a lot of what he wants to

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show you and tell you.

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Oh, I totally agree, that's the whole thing. Yeah, I

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think that's pretty cool. So like physical when you hear

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like the phenomena, like when you get little red marks

473
00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:44.359
on you sometimes.

474
00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:46.880
Right, it happened for years before I could discern it.

475
00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.160
And sometimes you have to. Really, I feel like I'm

476
00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.160
a slow learner, so like sometimes you have to and

477
00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:54.680
I have to talk to some priests about it too.

478
00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:58.200
But I found that most priests or God will send

479
00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:59.599
you the priest. Now the two priests that I do

480
00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.359
talk to, like Father jesuas he keeps sending me him obviously,

481
00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.160
and then Father Phi. He happens to live in the

482
00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.480
same rectory with Father Phi. Coincidentally, they don't cross paths

483
00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:13.079
that much. Their agendas and their schedules are completely different.

484
00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:16.119
But those of the two priests I actually could talk

485
00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:21.160
about mystical stuff. That would be that they always say, yes,

486
00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.000
that is a real experience of God, because they do

487
00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:26.799
hear God. Like I talked to Father five about the birds,

488
00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:28.400
and he was like, yes, Stephanie, I do think God's

489
00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.240
talking to you through the birds. Absolutely. I think you

490
00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:33.279
should trust that. And so when a priest says I

491
00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.759
think you should trust that, and then you feel it too,

492
00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:38.839
you know you feel it. I think you've got to

493
00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.480
go by more than just what's happening. There's birds that

494
00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.920
have come up to me at certain times that I

495
00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:45.599
feel like are from the enemy though too, that he's

496
00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.319
trying to throw me off course and make me distrust

497
00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.440
the bird messages that I was getting. You know, you

498
00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.519
get a I got an eerie feeling when these other

499
00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:56.240
birds came up to me. I didn't have a peaceful

500
00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.960
feeling like when God's around, You're gonna have peace. I

501
00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:00.519
don't know what did you I even know what you

502
00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:00.839
ask me?

503
00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.519
Now, No, we'll get around to. Because you watch a

504
00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.759
lot of prophetic videos and people who are claiming to

505
00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:08.279
be profits and all of that stuff. How long does it

506
00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:09.839
take you to watch somebody and you know that they're

507
00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:11.720
full of it or you know that they're blessed.

508
00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.519
Within a few seconds, because the more polished they are.

509
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.200
I don't know, I have a I do have a

510
00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.680
gift for discerning spirits too, though, so I'm just starting

511
00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.119
to realize I can definitely tell when someone has humility

512
00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.119
or when they have pride, and I can't stand to

513
00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:28.640
be around somebody who has pride. Like I was telling

514
00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.680
you that girl in my YMCACPR class and she was

515
00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.480
like thirty years old. A lot of these thirtiest girls

516
00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:37.720
have a lot of pride. So if you're a thirty eight,

517
00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.000
make sure you check yourself if you're a thirty in

518
00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:42.799
your thirty somethings, because that just seems to be what's

519
00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:45.039
going around. But I can't stand pride. I can pick

520
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:47.599
up on it like that, And it seems like the

521
00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:50.240
more humble these profits are, they don't really care what

522
00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:53.720
they look like. They're not having these big productions, and

523
00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.279
they'll be in their kitchen, or they'll be in their car,

524
00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:58.440
or they'll you know, they don't care about what their

525
00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.720
background looks like, and they're humble, and I just feel

526
00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.240
it in my spirit. And usually what they say is

527
00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:06.640
what already what God was already telling me. So it

528
00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:09.599
should always be confirmation. Like when they say it, it's

529
00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:13.720
not new information. So if it's new information, then that

530
00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.000
prophetic video is definitely not for you. It might be

531
00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.519
for somebody else. Somebody might have a true prophetic gift

532
00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:22.799
in it. That message just isn't for you. But I

533
00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:25.480
always pray before I even turn on the YouTube. I

534
00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.559
ask the Holy Spirit, my guardian Angel and Mother of Sorrows,

535
00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:32.759
because the Mother of Sorrows is the one who reveals

536
00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:35.359
the hidden and the secret things. So when you pray

537
00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:37.599
to Mary under the title of the Mother of Sorrows,

538
00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:40.720
she'll reveal the things that are in secret that you

539
00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:43.079
aren't seen. So I always pray for them to God

540
00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:45.799
my YouTube feed before I even turn it on, and

541
00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:48.200
then it does seem like whatever comes up is confirmation.

542
00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.079
It's what I've already written down. It's what I've already

543
00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:54.079
felt God speaking to me, and it really is kind

544
00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:54.799
of miraculous.

545
00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:56.039
What's your favorite saint?

546
00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.200
Well, I love Saint Terrez and it's cooled to he

547
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.440
stayed with yesterday and we had a relic at Mass

548
00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:05.720
of hers and and you know, her father was in

549
00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:08.119
the Middle Institution for like a year. She said that

550
00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:10.440
was the hardest year of their life, and he and

551
00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:13.759
everybody thought he was crazy. He revealed later that he

552
00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:17.920
was given that suffering for graces for his daughters. I mean,

553
00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:20.920
sometimes we do just go through suffering for the grace

554
00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:24.279
that God's you know, bringing down. But I would say

555
00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.759
Saint Tres who is yours?

556
00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:29.000
He just went blank, the Saint of lost causes.

557
00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.400
Thank Jude, Thank jud Yeah, I love him too. You know,

558
00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:35.279
do you know the story of how Saint Jude got

559
00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:36.480
started the hospital?

560
00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:39.400
Yeah, Dan, Danny Thomas, he prayed to him and said

561
00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:42.240
that if I ever, if you ever make me famous,

562
00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:43.799
honor your words.

563
00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:46.920
Yeah, he said, I'll do something for you, like start

564
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.880
and he started charity for you, I think is what

565
00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:50.920
he said. And then he started Saint Jee's.

566
00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:53.279
I think my favorite one though, was with my mom

567
00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:56.319
because she was a saint that when you lose something,

568
00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:57.000
you pray too.

569
00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:59.119
Oh yeah, Saint Anthony.

570
00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.640
Yeah, Saint Anthony. She just go And when you're growing up,

571
00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:05.440
as let's say you're fifteen years old, and you're like going, well,

572
00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:07.480
where's my jack, where's my green deg Well, pray to

573
00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:10.000
seeing Anthony. He'll tell you kind of stuff.

574
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.960
So yeah, that's pretty cool. And I've noticed, like Saint Michael,

575
00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.960
the Archangel, I've several times I've asked him when I've

576
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.400
lost something. And while I lost my purse in the park,

577
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.680
they somebody stole it and he brought it back to me.

578
00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.640
By the time I got home, it was in my mailbox.

579
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:26.359
And I didn't ask Saint Anthony. I asked. I was like,

580
00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:28.799
Archangel Michael, please protect my purse. Let it be back.

581
00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:31.599
It was back with all the money in it, the

582
00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:34.799
driver's license, the debit cards, and nothing was stolen. And

583
00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:37.960
some good Samaritan had found it in a trash can

584
00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.359
and he had left only a Bible verse. He said,

585
00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:42.799
I saw this in the trash can. I thought you

586
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.839
might need it. He got my address obviously from my

587
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.240
driver's license, right, and it just said a Bible. It

588
00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.400
said Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall

589
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:53.279
see the face of God. That was it. I was like, Wow,

590
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:55.000
So Saint Michael's pretty good at that too.

591
00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:03.519
Yeah, well, Saint Michael. Who are the three archangels Michael, Anthony.

592
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:05.880
And Reuben, Raphael and Gabriel.

593
00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:08.240
That's right? Yeah, yeah, we just missed that. The head

594
00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:10.640
of there's the same state for all three of those,

595
00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:12.000
and we missed that one. Yeah.

596
00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:14.799
Interestingly, follow Jesuaje in my car today talked a lot

597
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:17.400
about the archangels. He really loves them, and he started,

598
00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:19.960
I don't I wasn't sure why. It's interesting you brought

599
00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:22.079
it up. He kind of out of the blue brought

600
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.079
up the archangels and he was talking about how he

601
00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.720
was talking about them in his homili yesterday. I think

602
00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:30.480
his point was that he wants me to rely on

603
00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:34.359
them more for guidance and for messages that they are.

604
00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:36.680
He said, there are messengers and they're they're there to

605
00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:39.839
help us. That's why he said, he goes God. God

606
00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:43.440
can be everywhere, but he likes to dictate things. You know,

607
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:47.039
he likes to what's it called not dictate but delegate, right,

608
00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:50.960
and so he's like that, he delegates the archangels to

609
00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:53.880
come to us with messages and healing and the things

610
00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:54.279
we need.

611
00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:56.880
Well, the one the only reason I came up with

612
00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.960
this is I don't know. People probably I'm not that prophetic.

613
00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:01.400
I didn't come up with it. I'm sure a lot

614
00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:03.720
of people have, but people saying, well, if God can,

615
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.799
if God's so powerful he can handle, why does he

616
00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:07.599
need angels and why does he need saints and all

617
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.440
that kind of stuff, And all I can come up

618
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.720
with is because then otherwise it's kind of like slavery,

619
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.839
you know. I mean, if he's controlling everything, he needs

620
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:19.920
kind of other aspects in otherwise it's not the same

621
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.839
as if he's controlling everything, he needs a little outside

622
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:24.559
to mix it up.

623
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:26.880
Yeah, he likes to work in teamwork. I think God

624
00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:30.480
likes teamwork. And he gave everybody a choice, right, He's

625
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:32.920
not a dictator. He gave all the angels a choice

626
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:35.400
from the very moment of their creation. And so the

627
00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:38.160
ones that are falling angels the demons, they chose not

628
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:39.880
to partner with them.

629
00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:43.559
Was Lucifer an archangel? Yeah, there were four at one point.

630
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:47.079
Well, there are probably millions, but there's only three that

631
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:50.680
are named in the Bible, there's nine choirs of angels.

632
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.640
We don't know how many angels are in each choir,

633
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:56.839
but the only three that are named in the Bible

634
00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:02.200
are Michael, Rafael, and Gabriel the Eastern tradition like the

635
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:07.880
Egyptian Eastern Orthodox Church Uriel, and there's two more that

636
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.039
are named, but anyway, we don't know how many there are,

637
00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:13.440
but those are just the only ones that are named.

638
00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:16.000
So do you think the other two get jealous because

639
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:17.400
of all the Catholics pray to Michael.

640
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:21.680
I don't know. I think they probably don't want Michael's job.

641
00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:24.000
He's the one that battles the devil all the time,

642
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:28.039
so I know, he's kind of got pretty he's like

643
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:30.000
the military leader, so he's got the hard job.

644
00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.279
Just think about like an angel or an archangel. That

645
00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.279
whole we're talking about mysticism. You have to wonder what

646
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:40.480
exactly does that entail? You know, I mean, because obviously

647
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.839
you were created by God. You know, it's and it's

648
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:45.119
like did He just create you and said, all right,

649
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:49.000
you're gonna be above all the other angels, you know,

650
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:51.400
and it's you know, it's just kind of weird. On

651
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.519
how much power do they really have you.

652
00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.599
Know, they're they're so powerful. Yeah, they're so powerful. And

653
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.680
what's coming to my mind is that movie. I always

654
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:03.319
love that movie, Michael. Did you ever see that? Yeah?

655
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:05.680
And I think God creates the angels the same way

656
00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:08.039
he creates us, with like certain gifts. And I was

657
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:11.000
just thinking about in that movie, Michael goes, I love

658
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.200
a good battle. You know. It's like, so he made

659
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.519
him the one in charge of battle because he likes

660
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:19.240
to fight, simple as he likes to fight. So God

661
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:21.559
made him to want to fight evil.

662
00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:23.319
And then if you lost, when you go straight to

663
00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:25.079
heaven anyway, so it wouldn't be like you ever lost,

664
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:28.559
I guess. So yeah, like is there to fight and

665
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:30.039
if you get killed and you just go back to heaven,

666
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:32.559
it's like, Okay, I lost that round exactly.

667
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:35.400
I missed that movie. I'm gonna have to watch that movie.

668
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:38.960
It's kind of getting closer to Christmas time anyway, so

669
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:42.079
it's kind of a Christmas movie. Yeah, the angels, do

670
00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:44.400
you know that? First, the first realm of angels that

671
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:47.000
go ride around God are the Seraphim, and they're just

672
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.200
like pure fire. So the arch angels are actually a

673
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:53.400
lower rank. They're not the higher rank, but they're still

674
00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:55.480
so much more powerful than us. They can do whatever

675
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.480
we need them.

676
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.599
To, right, And that's what when whenever I've read f.

677
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.640
Revl the Revelations, it's kind of like, well, he's got

678
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.599
those old guys in their rams who are all around him,

679
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:07.559
and then they've got this and I can't ever make it.

680
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:10.160
I can't wrap my head around any of it.

681
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.680
It's very symbolic. I think, I don't know revelation. It's

682
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.880
hard to read. And John wrote it right, right.

683
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.119
But then I've heard too, it wasn't the John that

684
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:20.400
we all associate with. It was a different John, and

685
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:21.440
I don't know what that means.

686
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.920
So it wasn't the John that took Mary into his

687
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.680
home and Mary, Well.

688
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:28.000
That's who we all think it is. But now there's

689
00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:31.160
some scholars coming out saying, no, there's another John that's mentioned,

690
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:33.839
and it's like, did James have a brother named John?

691
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:36.960
I think so, And I think they're saying it was

692
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:39.640
another John, but I don't know. I can't even say that.

693
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.160
But that said, it's not the John that you think

694
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.480
of most of the time in the Bible. It was

695
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.880
a different John. Interesting, So I don't nobody quote me

696
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:47.599
on that, because I don't even know. It's just a

697
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:49.519
theory being tossed around out there.

698
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.839
Yeah, I don't know. I think the important thing to

699
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:58.839
remember about mysticism the angels are really a great They're

700
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.839
going to show up. I felt. I found angels to

701
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:04.119
be very reliable. So your guardian angel obviously the first

702
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:06.640
one you talked to. But when you call upon archangel

703
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:09.759
Michael or Rafael or Gabriel. But I tend to call

704
00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:11.720
upon Michael a lot because I'm in a lot of

705
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:17.240
spiritual warfare situations. His nice's presence known and he shows up.

706
00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:18.480
They're very reliable.

707
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:20.400
Did I ever tell you about my angel story?

708
00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:21.799
No, you didn't.

709
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.039
It was about twenty years ago. My best friend. Don't

710
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.079
worry about the backstory anyway. She was a woman and

711
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:30.839
she was a few years older than me, but we

712
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.039
were best friends. I mean we were as tight as

713
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.279
you could possibly be. And she was ten years older.

714
00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:37.759
So she had a grandkid. And the grandkid and he

715
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:39.839
was like one and a half years old, just starting

716
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:42.000
to walk and all that kind of stuff. Well, a

717
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:45.640
couple of days before Christmas, her son and his wife,

718
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.839
they were going to a concert in Denver. This is

719
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:50.240
up and lovely. So they went down there some grandma,

720
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:53.319
you babies sit in Yeah, no problem. So they went

721
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:55.200
down and they stayed in Denver and they had a

722
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.160
good old time, and all that kind of stuff came back. Well,

723
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.839
she had died, She had had a she had a

724
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.920
heart defect that nobody knew about in her entire life,

725
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.960
and she's only fifty two and she died. And so

726
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:09.119
they figured and they figured out that when she had died,

727
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.039
that one and a half year old was by himself

728
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:13.279
for almost forty hours.

729
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:14.359
Oh my gosh.

730
00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:17.599
So he was perfectly fine. So you can't tell me

731
00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:19.720
there weren't some angels helping that little boy out.

732
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:24.240
Absolutely absolutely that I mean. And it just reminds me

733
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.519
of John the Baptist being, you know, raised in the

734
00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:29.799
wilderness with wolves and stuff and bears there. You can't

735
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:32.079
tell me that it was just animals raising him. Angels

736
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.160
were tending to him to I'm sure.

737
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.240
Well, the well, the kind of it makes me wonder

738
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.960
because they said that, well, when the devil is haunting Jesus,

739
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.480
basically he says, well, an angel won't even let you

740
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.200
gash your foot on the side of a rock right.

741
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.759
There, right they don't, and I've actually felt that way lately.

742
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.400
Like I don't know, it's gonna sound stupid to people,

743
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.720
but like I'll drop, I'll almost drop something and it'll

744
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:58.920
land in a way that it doesn't spill, It'll land

745
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.240
perfectly to where I can pick it back. I feel

746
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.559
very protected lately. And just like I said, I walked

747
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.839
out and I ran into a priest. I moved over here,

748
00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.279
and a priest came to bless my home. Like I

749
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.319
definitely feel God's favor on my life. I think some

750
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.599
some big things are probably about to open up for

751
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:18.960
me because and you two, you had that dream. You

752
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.359
don't have to share your dream, but you don't normally

753
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.000
have dreams about like success and like new beginning, you know,

754
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:27.440
open frontiers, do you know?

755
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.000
I mean, I don't have any kind of most my

756
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:33.599
dreams figure this out. I don't have, like I've never

757
00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.400
had liked nightmares and that kind of stuff. And my

758
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.319
dreams are just weird. But I'm probably one of the

759
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:41.920
only people I've ever heard of who actually wakes up laughing.

760
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:43.599
Their dreams actually crack them up.

761
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:44.039
You know.

762
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.440
It's kind of like that's right. Do you never hear

763
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.359
about people man, I woke up, and if a dream

764
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:50.119
is too weird, sometimes I'll just wake myself up and go,

765
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.559
that's just too weird. But I don't have any kind

766
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:56.039
of like dreams about the past, good or bad. I

767
00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:57.759
don't have any like dreams about the future.

768
00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:00.759
So it's good, I mean not good. I mean I

769
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:02.039
guess that we all have. I have a lot of

770
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:05.039
prophetic dreams about the future, and they come true, so

771
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.119
they always come true. I don't know if I'm protected

772
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:13.119
from having dreams that the demonic causes. They always come true,

773
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.920
But I don't know. That's pretty cool. I just think

774
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.119
I think we're on the in a season. It's that

775
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:21.440
we're talking about mysticism, because you know, the Bible says

776
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.559
in the end days God, I will pour out my

777
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:26.800
spirit and and there's gonna be signs, wonders and miracles

778
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.440
beyond what you've ever seen before. So I think we're

779
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:32.159
in those times and people need to open up their

780
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:35.599
minds and their eyes to the signs, wonderful wonders and miracles,

781
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:37.679
and to the mystical that's true.

782
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:40.679
So I hope you guys think about the miscal Like

783
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:42.360
she said, don't put God in a box. You know,

784
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:43.880
go ahead and see what else is out there.

785
00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.920
Don't let it scare you exactly, and just pray about

786
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.400
it and and be informed. And oh, I do want

787
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:54.280
to say this. I advise everybody. Father Rosetti is an

788
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.000
exorcist in our country who does a lot of YouTube videos.

789
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:01.079
They're pretty short, very informative. He'll do like prayers against

790
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:04.880
breaking financial curses, prayers against breaking soul tis, prayers against

791
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.679
clear the negative energy out of your home. Whatever. And

792
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.639
he did just release a book that's really good and

793
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:14.280
the short chapters. One he has one whole chapter just

794
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.639
devote it to his guardian Angel. That's beautiful and so sweet,

795
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:19.679
and it's like so sweet about his testament, how many

796
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.800
times he sees his guardian angel and how many times

797
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.559
he's helped him out. And I think people do need

798
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.159
to have a basic understanding of spiritual warfare, so and

799
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.199
then you'll be able to understand how to protect yourself

800
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.960
and discern when God's talking to you or when the

801
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.239
enemy's trying to interfere. I just want to say that,

802
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.400
but Father Rosetti, go get his book. It's really a

803
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:39.920
good book.

804
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:42.480
Cool deal. Do you think you could find the title?

805
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:43.920
So we could put it on the show notes.

806
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:46.119
Yeah, I'll find the title and then you can link it.

807
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:48.239
You can put it when you upload.

808
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:51.039
The show all right, cool? Well, thanks verb for catching

809
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.079
another episode these times and Jeff and stuff. Now here's

810
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:54.840
hoping you don't.

811
00:35:54.639 --> 00:36:08.760
Lose hope, and remember we're all in it together. Yeah,