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Live with Passion with Father Cedric | Cedric Pisegna - Holiness Is For You And Me | January 19, 2025
- Father cedric pisegna: holiness is for you and for me.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father pisegna: i am father cedric pisegna, the host of
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- "live with passion."
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- So glad that you tuned in.
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- I want to talk about what god is doing in your life right now,
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- And i want to talk about holiness.
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- God is trying to make us holy.
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- Let me share with you
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- 1 peter chapter 1, and it says, "as god
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- Has called you to be holy, be holy in all your conduct, since
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- It is written, 'you shall be holy, for i am holy.'"
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- I was preaching at a church one time, and somebody came up to me
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- And said, "cedric pisegna, that's a different name.
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- Is there a saint cedric?"
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- And i laughed, and i said, "not yet, but there's one in
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- The making."
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- And that's exactly what god is doing in my life and in your
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- Life, too.
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- He is making us saints.
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- That word "saint" means a holy one.
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- In fact, when paul the apostle used to write his churches,
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- Corinth, or ephesus, or thessalonica, he would say, "to
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- The saints at corinth," or, "the saints at ephesus," and that
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- Word "saints" means the holy ones.
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- I wanted to help you to see that you are a saint.
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- You're not perfect, i'm not perfect, but we're on the way.
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- We're in the making.
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- Christianity is a journey.
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- It's a pilgrimage.
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- We go from selfishness to selflessness, and that's what
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- God is doing in our life right now.
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- You might be thinking, "what is god doing in my life?
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- It doesn't feel like god's doing anything."
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- Well, trust me, god is the potter, and we are the clay, and
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- He's at work.
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- Sometimes when i'm reading, or reflecting, or praying, i take
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- Out a little--i bought this at a store, it's a little lump
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- Of play-doh.
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- I'm too left-brained sometimes, that means real logical and
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- Black and white.
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- And i want to try to be more balanced and get my right brain
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- Working, so i'll just take out some play-doh and i'll play
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- With it.
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- And i noticed something about play-doh, and by the way, i
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- Found out that they have adult play-doh now, has different
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- Scents to it, like cappuccino, some kind of barbecued meat, or
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- Some kind of flower-type scent, and i'll take that play-doh, and
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- At first when i take it out, it's very hard, but after i play
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- With it a little bit, and work with a little bit, it gets soft.
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- And that's exactly what god is doing in our life right now.
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- He's working, and moving, and at work in our life, trying to
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- Soften our hearts, and make us holy.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father pisegna: i must let you know that god is at work in you
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- And in me to make us holy.
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- You might be thinking, "well, holiness, what is that?"
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- Might have this idea of somebody in a chapel, praying for hours
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- On end, they're a holy person.
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- Well yeah, they are.
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- That word "holiness" means to be set apart.
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- Isaiah has this vision, this grand vision of god in the
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- Temple, and he sees the lord, and glorious, lifted up, full of
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- Light and glory.
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- And the angels all around the throne are saying, "holy, holy,
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- Holy is the lord of hosts."
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- If you're catholic, at mass we pronounce those words during
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- The mass.
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- "holy, holy, holy is the lord of hosts."
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- That means that god is separated from evil.
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- At its root essence, that's what the word "holiness" means, to be
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- Separated from evil.
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- So, for us to become holy, we must be separated from idols,
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- From sin, from the seven deadly sins, anger, and lust, and envy,
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- And gluttony, and all those type things.
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- We remove ourselves from that, from the world, if you will, and
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- Then the positive side of holiness is virtue.
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- Now, i'm talking about what holiness is and what our
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- Call is.
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- And every one of us has a call to be holy.
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- Virtue, let's talk about that for a moment.
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- God appears to moses, and he said, "i am the lord, a god
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- Gracious and merciful, slow to anger, rich in kindness."
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- What is holiness?
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- Mercy, graciousness, slow to anger, kindness.
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- That's who god is.
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- Jesus, let's look at him.
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- Jesus comes on the scene, and he says, "learn from me all you who
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- Are burdened and heavy laden, for i am meek and humble of
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- Heart, gentle, kind, compassionate."
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- That's the sacred heart of jesus.
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- That's exactly what and who you and i are called to be.
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- "be holy because i am holy," says the lord.
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- "the will of god is your sanctification."
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- That's a theological word that means--to be sanctified means to
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- Be made holy.
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- God's will in your life and my life is to be made holy.
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- This is the way god is.
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- This is the way he wants us to be.
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- I happened to be in rome back in 2003, the beatification of
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- Mother theresa happened.
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- Beatification is the final step before canonization.
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- Canonization is the official term of somebody being made a
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- Saint in the catholic church.
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- Mother theresa was canonized later, but i was her
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- Beatification where she was pronounced a blessing.
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- I was there with my mother, who is albanian, and by the way,
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- Mother teresa was albanian.
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- I'm a quarter albanian, half italian, quarter slovak, and i
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- Was there with my mother, and a half a million other people.
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- St peter's square was packed with people, all gathered
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- Because this woman, this little albanian woman, all wrinkled and
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- Crinkled, and short, and old, this little albanian woman
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- Reached out to the poorest of the poor.
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- She loved everybody, and she was eventually declared a saint.
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- That's to me what sainthood is, the behavior toward people,
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- Kindness, mercy, love.
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- Mother teresa's sainthood, and beatification, and canonization
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- Is legendary.
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- But lest you think saints are few and far between, in our
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- Catholic documents, vatican two and pope francis promulgated an
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- Apostolic exhortation called "rejoice and be glad
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- About holiness."
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- He quoted vatican two which said, "there is a universal call
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- To holiness."
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- By the way, that's what catholic means, universal.
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- A lot of people think, and they're kind of misguided in
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- Their thoughts on this.
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- They think that holiness is just for priests, or for sisters, or
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- For those in religious life, or for a select few that have
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- Been canonized.
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- Actually, in the catholic church, thousands of people have
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- Been canonized.
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- Saint francis of assisi is my favorite, and saint paul of the
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- Cross, and saint teresa, and saint catherine of sienna.
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- There's so many saints.
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- I'm sure you have your favorite saint, but there is a universal
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- Call to holiness beyond the canonized saints.
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- Every one of us, you and me, are invited to become holy.
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- And as i said, god is at work in us.
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- God is the potter and we are the clay.
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- I know that i know that in my life right now, god is trying,
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- Sometimes with kicking and screaming on my part, trying to
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- Make me holy.
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- And again, that has to do with being separated from evil,
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- Repentance, turning away from the dark side, and growing
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- In selflessness.
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- Not selfishness, selflessness.
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- You are called to holiness within your marriage.
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- That's where you learn forgiveness, and mercy, and
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- Kindness, compassion, love for each other.
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- And there is also a call to the single life.
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- I've talked about that in other episodes.
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- You have a call to holiness, a universal call to holiness.
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- Twenty years ago, my father passed away.
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- I bear his name, i'm cedric, jr.
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- He always supported me in everything that i did, whether
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- It be playing baseball, or golf, or when i finally became a
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- Priest and started writing books.
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- He was right there to help me all the time.
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- Well, when my dad passed away, i didn't know how i was going to
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- Do it.
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- I was so used to having my dad there as my counselor and my
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- Friend, and finally he passed away, and it was my honor and my
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- Great privilege to have his funeral--preside at his funeral
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- And celebrate his life.
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- And get this, it was on all saints day.
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- In the catholic church, that's november 1st.
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- He had died a week before, and i actually had my dad's funeral on
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- All saints day.
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- That's the day in the catholic church where we try to remember,
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- Yes, the canonized saints, like mother teresa, and saint john
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- Paul the second, and saint francis of assisi, st. paul of
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- The cross, and st. romuald, and as i said, thousands of
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- Canonized saints.
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- And it's also the day that we remember probably your mother,
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- And your father, your grandparents who are praying
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- For you.
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- All these different people known to god alone, and to their
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- Friends, and to the ones that were close to them.
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- They may not be officially canonized by the church, but
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- They are saints.
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- There's this great vision i wanted to tell you about that
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- Comes in the book of revelation.
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- It's a vision of the throne of god.
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- And as i said, isaiah saw god, and said, "holy, holy, holy."
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- At mass, we proclaim that, as i said, but in this vision around
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- The throne and before the throne, there are millions,
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- Millions of people.
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- John, the angel are talking about this as john, in the book
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- Of revelation, sees this vision.
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- And john sees all these people before the throne of god, and he
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- Says, "who are these people?"
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- And the angel said, "they're the ones that have come out of the
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- Great tribulation, and they've washed," i want you to get this,
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- "they've washed their robes in the blood of the lamb."
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- Oh, that's so good.
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- And they were innumerable, nobody could count them.
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- So, that's the point that i want to try to impress upon you, that
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- Holiness is universal.
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- It's not just for the religious people, it's for you and for me.
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- It's for married people, single people, religious people, it's a
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- Call for everybody.
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- And by the way, while i'm still on the subject of all these
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- People being before the throne of god, the reason they were
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- Able to be before the throne of god, as the angel said, they
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- Washed their robes white in the blood of the lamb.
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- When i talk about becoming holy, and being virtuous, and
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- Separated from evil, that is god's will for us, but that is
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- Not what saves us.
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- What saves us or brings us before the throne of god as
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- Right with god is jesus's death for us on the cross.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father pisegna: we are made holy, if you will, we are made
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- Right before god by the blood of the lamb.
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- If we truly believe, we will allow god's power to work in us,
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- And that power is the holy spirit.
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- Notice who it is.
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- The holy spirit, the one separated from evil.
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- The spirit that has the spirit of god, that has the virtue,
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- Such as knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom,
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- Fortitude, piety, the fear of the lord, love, peace, and joy,
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- The fruit of the holy spirit.
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- And the spirit comes to work in us, to mold us and shape us.
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- God is the potter, and we're the clay, so that when we finally do
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- Die, we will be ready.
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- Well, this glorious vision, and we read that on all saints day.
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- I have this funeral for my dad on all saints day, and i don't
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- Think it was a coincidence that i had the funeral for my dad on
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- All saints day in the catholic church.
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- It was a week after he had passed, and it was the right
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- Time to have it, but it wasn't a coincidence, because dad may not
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- Have been canonized by the church, and there probably
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- Wasn't a whole lot of people that thought he was a saint,
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- Simply because they didn't know him, but i knew my dad.
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- He was married for 54 years to my mom, always faithful, and he
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- Lived a simple life as a carpenter, raised three of us
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- Children, i have two older sisters.
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- I said he was a carpenter, he built the house, the very house
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- That we lived in.
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- To me, being faithful, providing for your family, working hard,
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- Being determined, trying to help others, i know he was a very
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- Generous person to me and to others, that's the stuff
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- Of holiness.
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- Holiness is not out there somewhere that you can't grasp
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- It, it's living your vocation well.
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- This series is called "be your best."
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- You cannot be who god created you to be without becoming holy.
- 00:14:49.705 --> 00:14:56.312
- I want you to be your best.
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- I want you to strive for holiness.
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- I want you to become all that you can be, and it means
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- Realizing your potential on a professional level, but it also
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- Means becoming all that you can be when it comes to being
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- Like christ.
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- "be holy, for i am holy," god says.
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- We'll talk more about holiness here.
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- As i said, in the book of revelation, we're told that the
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- Saved are standing before the throne of god, the holy ones,
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- Because they're washed in the blood of the lamb.
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- Now, at vatican two, we were told that there's a universal
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- Call to holiness.
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- Holiness is for you and me, it's for everybody, and i want you to
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- Understand that whatever state you're in, whatever your
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- Vocation is, you are invited to be holy.
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- Most of you are married, some of you are single, and some of you
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- Are religious.
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- What is holiness?
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- At its root definition, as i said, it means to be separated
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- From evil.
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- Is there anything in your life that you're clinging to that you
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- Know you need to get separated from?
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- That's why when isaiah saw god, has said, "holy, holy, holy."
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- God is separated from anything dark or evil, but also, he was
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- Marveling at god's virtue and god's character.
- 00:16:18.861 --> 00:16:23.632
- That's what holiness is, as i've tried to demonstrate.
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- And holiness is a movement in our life.
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- I want you to understand that change is incremental.
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- I tell people all the time, it's not perfection,
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- It's progression.
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- It's not all at once, it's not immediate, it's incremental, its
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- Eventual, if you keep at it.
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- You can't just say, "god, make me holy," and god's zaps it into
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- You, and all of sudden, you're holy.
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- It takes time.
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- It's kind of like a fine wine, you become.
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- I have this saying in my ministry that i really love.
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- Who you are is god's gift to you, but who you become is your
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- Gift to god.
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- And i talk about becoming in many different levels.
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- You become in your relationship to god.
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- You become in your professional life, striving for
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- Your potential.
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- But you also become when it comes to holiness and departing
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- From evil, becoming as virtuous as you can be.
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- We had an election recently in the united states, and there was
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- A lot of anger, we had a pandemic, and there was a lot of
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- Frustration, a lot of fear, people are frazzled, and upset,
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- And going through hard times.
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- And i heard this saying that i really like.
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- Someone once said be kind to everyone you meet, because
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- Everyone you meet is going through a hard battle.
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- It's so true.
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- Kindness, gentleness, compassion, generosity, your
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- Behavior toward others, your behaviors towards yourself,
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- That's what god is after in our life.
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- That's what holiness is all about.
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- And why should we become holy?
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- First of all, because that's the way god is.
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- That's the way jesus is.
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- And if we are to be his children, we must be like god.
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- We must become like god, like jesus.
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- That is our lifelong call.
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- I've already demonstrated to you that right from the scriptures,
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- Holiness is the will of god for us.
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- The will of god is our sanctification, that's 1
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- Thessalonians 4:3.
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- And then we must be holy, because holiness leads to life
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- In heaven.
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- That's why we become holy, so that we can live forever
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- In heaven.
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- And i told you it's because of the blood of christ.
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- It's because he died for us on the cross, and our faith in him,
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- That we are able to stand before god at the end of time.
- 00:19:06.728 --> 00:19:10.299
- But if we truly believe, we will allow the power of the holy
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- Spirit to work in us, to mold us, and shape us, and get us
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- Ready for that great beatific vision.
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- If you remember jesus's teaching, he taught a lot about
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- Holiness, and i remember the sermon on the mount, he taught
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- About the beatitudes, it is the gospel that we proclaim on all
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- Saints day.
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- And you'll hear jesus say things like this.
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- "blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
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- Notice, he talks about humility and meekness.
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- And these are the people who will inherit the earth, the new
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- Earth, heaven itself.
- 00:19:50.339 --> 00:19:52.641
- Jesus said, "blessed are you who hunger for god, for you will
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- Be satisfied.
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- Blessed are the merciful, for you will obtain mercy.
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- Blessed are the pure in heart, for you will see god.
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- And blessed are the peacemakers, for you will be called the sons
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- And daughters of god."
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- And what i love about the beatitudes is jesus said,
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- "rejoice and be glad.
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- Your reward will be great in heaven."
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- So, he's inviting us to be peacemakers.
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- He's inviting us to be merciful.
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- He's inviting us to be meek and to hunger for god, because the
- 00:20:29.711 --> 00:20:34.616
- Result of that will be this amazing beatific vision, and
- 00:20:34.616 --> 00:20:39.321
- Heaven itself.
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- In the scriptures, it talks about what heaven will be like,
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- And it calls heaven the wedding feast of the lamb.
- 00:20:43.659 --> 00:20:47.496
- Now, as a catholic priest, i have presided at some weddings.
- 00:20:47.496 --> 00:20:52.301
- Most recently, i had a wedding for my cousin, a
- 00:20:52.301 --> 00:20:55.737
- Joyous occasion.
- 00:20:55.737 --> 00:20:57.572
- We were in boston for that, right on the harbor,
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- Boston harbor.
- 00:21:00.042 --> 00:21:01.510
- Had the wedding at boston college, and the reception was
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- At the harbor there, at a big hotel.
- 00:21:04.179 --> 00:21:06.548
- And i mean, there were all these people there, and there was all
- 00:21:06.548 --> 00:21:09.384
- This feasting, and the best music, and joy, and happiness.
- 00:21:09.384 --> 00:21:13.522
- That's why the apostolic exhortation that pope francis
- 00:21:13.522 --> 00:21:16.892
- Had was called "rejoice and be glad."
- 00:21:16.892 --> 00:21:19.127
- And that's exactly what jesus said here in the beatitudes.
- 00:21:19.127 --> 00:21:22.097
- Rejoice and be glad, because heaven will be this great
- 00:21:22.097 --> 00:21:26.301
- Wedding feast of the lamb, and what does that mean?
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- There will be, first of all, the reunion with the ones that
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- We love.
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- There will be celebrating, feasting, the finest
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- Choice wines.
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- Every tear will be wiped away, and death will be no more.
- 00:21:38.847 --> 00:21:44.519
- "be holy, for i am holy."
- 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:47.089
- Now, we've all met holy people in our life, and they have
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- Helped us to be motivated, to strive for holiness even more.
- 00:21:51.026 --> 00:21:56.064
- And i know that i know that religious life is sanctifying
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- Me, or making me holy.
- 00:22:01.303 --> 00:22:04.039
- Your vocation, whatever it is, god is working in you.
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- I talked a little bit about the holy spirit, and i want to go to
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- That very quickly.
- 00:22:10.946 --> 00:22:12.547
- Notice, when we talk about god's spirit, we say the holy spirit,
- 00:22:12.547 --> 00:22:16.551
- Separated from evil.
- 00:22:16.551 --> 00:22:18.053
- And the great ministry of the holy spirit, the great work of
- 00:22:18.053 --> 00:22:21.223
- The holy spirit in you and me is to make us holy.
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- Sometimes i'll be driving too fast, and i'll hear, "cedric,
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- Slow down."
- 00:22:29.831 --> 00:22:31.199
- Yeah, it's my conscience, but is it just my conscience?
- 00:22:31.199 --> 00:22:34.069
- Or i'll be eating too much, and i'll hear, "cedric, stop."
- 00:22:34.069 --> 00:22:37.873
- Is that just me, or is that the holy spirit in me?
- 00:22:37.873 --> 00:22:40.809
- Somebody will have hurt me and i don't want to forgive them, and
- 00:22:40.809 --> 00:22:43.078
- I'll hear, "cedric, you can forgive them."
- 00:22:43.078 --> 00:22:46.148
- The holy spirit comes to work in us, and i pray that as you're
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- Watching this program right now, you will sense the voice of the
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- Spirit identifying in your life what areas you need to get away
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- From, and what you need to do to become holy.
- 00:22:59.361 --> 00:23:04.499
- And one of the great areas of holiness i've found out from the
- 00:23:04.499 --> 00:23:07.569
- Holy spirit is developing our relationship with god in prayer.
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- That's that whole pious scene.
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- Piety is one of the gifts of the holy spirit.
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- It simply means having a right relationship with god, that's
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- What holiness is.
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- You become one with god.
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- You allow god to take over your will, your mind, your body,
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- Your emotions.
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- You give yourself to god.
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- God is the potter and we are the clay.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father pisegna: holiness is the great work of god in you and
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- In me.
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- There is a universal call to holiness.
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- It's not just for sisters, or priests, or nuns, or for the
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- Pope, it's for people in prison, it's for you and me.
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- And i'm praying for all of you who have watched this program
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- That you will become saints.
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- You allow the holy spirit to work in the play-doh of your
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- Heart, to mold you, to shape you, to make you soft, and to
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- Make you like christ.
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- May almighty god bless you, the father, the son, and the holy
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- Spirit, amen.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Father pisegna: i got a letter from a woman, and she said, "get
- 00:24:35.223 --> 00:24:37.759
- This, every sunday morning, i set my alarm, because i don't
- 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.830
- Want to miss your program.
- 00:24:41.830 --> 00:24:43.331
- I'm so uplifted and surrounded in god's love when i'm listening
- 00:24:43.331 --> 00:24:46.101
- To you, it thoroughly touches me."
- 00:24:46.101 --> 00:24:47.969
- She sets her alarm for the program.
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- I wanted to tell you about a book that i wrote, my first
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- Book ever.
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- It's got a butterfly on the front, and i love that, because
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- You know, we go from a--this is what holiness is.
- 00:24:56.578 --> 00:24:58.647
- You go from a caterpillar, from evil, to a butterfly,
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- To holiness.
- 00:25:02.984 --> 00:25:04.319
- That's the journey of our life.
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- It's called "live passionately," and in this book, i talk all
- 00:25:05.654 --> 00:25:10.392
- About holiness and how to grow, and what god is doing in us, and
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- How to become the best that you can be.
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