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Good News #182 062125: Unpacking Life's Journey with Faith and Family · Catholic Spirit Radio

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  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
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  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
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  lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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  Good evening, and welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  I am Deacon Al Lundy. I'm here with you every Saturday and Sunday from 8 to
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  8.30 on Catholic Spirit Radio, talking about the good news of Jesus Christ,
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  the readings from the Mass.
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  And so this is the Feast of St.
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  Peter and Paul, those great apostles of the Church, and that's what we celebrate this Sunday.
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  And so we'll be reading about them and talking about not only their lives,
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  but more about how our lives are connected to their lives.
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  First, let's talk about my life. It's been a little crazy. It's been a busy
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  week. I mentioned, I think, last week that my mother died recently.
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  And so my wife, Sharon, and I have been busy taking care of her apartment,
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  getting things cleared out now.
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  And, you know, it's a double-edged sword.
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  It's kind of nice to be able to sit down and go through all of her things and
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  all the old pictures and all the old memories and the memorabilia that we find
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  remembering where that came from and what we were doing as a family or what
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  my parents were doing when they acquired this.
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  But I'll tell you what? To take someone else's home that's full of stuff and
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  move it into your home, which is already full of stuff.
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  You just can't keep everything. And sometimes it's really difficult to let things
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  go because they have such great memories attached to them.
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  But I only need so many waffle irons.
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  You only need so many crockpots. So we've been busying ourselves for the last
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  week making lots of trips with lots of boxes to various charities and taking
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  some of mom's treasures and sharing them with others.
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  And hopefully they'll enjoy them
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  as well. If you have someone passed away who, like my mom, had some...
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  Illnesses and some physical issues. There are some great charities in town to
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  take care of like the durable medical equipment.
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  So here in Bloomington and probably near where you live, there's a charity called
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  LifeSill and they take mobility items.
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  And as I took a whole carload of things and entered them into the building,
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  into their office and lined everything up, I realized what I was looking at
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  was the life cycle of my mother's legs, because she started off being able to
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  walk, and then at one time had to go to cane.
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  So I had a few canes to donate. From canes, we went to walkers.
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  So I had her walker and my dad's walker to take in. From walkers,
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  we went to the wheelchair.
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  So I had the transport chair. They didn't want the power chair.
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  So I had the transport chair to give.
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  And as I'm looking at this, I'm thinking, wow, this is her life cycle for the
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  last 10 years, going from being able to walk to needing assistance to not being
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  able to walk in like four or five stages.
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  But they were so grateful to have all this equipment. There were the transition
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  chairs for the shower to be able to get in and out of the tub.
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  There was the various handholds that clamp to the tub to help her get in and out of the bathroom.
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  There are just all sorts of special mobility equipment that we were able to share.
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  And the nice thing about LifeSill, and again, perhaps you have LifeSill or another
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  similar charity in your area, is they then rent these out for free to anybody who needs it.
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  You know, you need a wheelchair, you can go to LifeSill and they'll rent it out to you for no charge.
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  And I know that that helps a lot of people.
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  We have a visiting nurses organization that we were able to give a lot of medical
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  goods that my mother had because of her, she had an ileostomy.
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  So to care for the ileostomy, she had an issue with phlebitis in her legs.
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  So there was a lot of, just a lot of first aid type things that we no longer needed.
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  And so we're able to donate all that. They'll use it for people with issues
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  that are lacking the financial needs to get the equipment they need.
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  So now I'm trying to find a home for the powered wheelchair,
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  which kind of nobody wants, which is a shame because, I mean,
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  this is a very expensive wheelchair.
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  It was bought for my mother through Medicare.
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  Medicare doesn't take it back. I called the organization that we actually bought
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  it from, or Medicare bought it from. They don't want it back.
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  These things cost thousands of dollars, right? I have a limited time to give it to someone.
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  I'm not even trying to sell it. I was trying to donate it.
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  And I can't get anybody to take the wheelchair.
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  It's just very frustrating. I think I finally found an organization in Springfield
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  who will send someone up, hopefully Monday, to pick the chair up.
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  And they do the same thing.
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  They loan these at no charge for people who need them.
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  And they were very excited. It's a nice little powered wheelchair.
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  The only problem it has, it's only a couple years old.
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  The only problem it has is on one arm, there's white paint that is embedded into the black vinyl.
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  Because if you know anyone with a powered wheelchair, it takes a while to get used to the steering.
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  My dear mother ran into everything in that apartment that was three feet high
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  or lower. She ended up hitting it.
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  Doorways, corners, dressers, tables, chairs.
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  If it was under three feet tall, my mom managed to hit it with this powered wheelchair.
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  And sometimes take things down. She took an entire door frame down.
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  The first couple weeks she had this, she was coming out of the bathroom,
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  hooked the door frame with a back wheel on the chair and literally ripped the
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  door off the wall, frame and all.
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  So if you know someone who's getting a powered wheelchair, be patient.
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  There's a huge learning curve on steering these things.
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  It did make the house interesting because when you heard that click,
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  you got out of the way fast because you had no idea what direction it was moving.
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  But anyway, so the whole week we've been clearing out the apartment. And it's a tough job.
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  And my brothers, God bless them all. I love my four brothers.
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  They have been no help whatsoever.
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  My youngest brother right now is traipsing through the highlands of Scotland.
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  His son, who's now sophomore in college, about to be a junior,
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  has been playing some kind of a computer game online with another kid.
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  I say kid, but he's now, like I say, he's 21 now.
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  In scotland which one of the beauties of the internet is you can do that you
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  know you can i guess you would call it socializing with someone in an in another
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  country and so he's been playing with this kid since they were both pre-teens,
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  And now that they're both in college, they decided wouldn't it be cool to meet.
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  So he wanted to go to Scotland. Well, even at 21, there was no way his mother
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  was going to let him go to Scotland by himself.
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  So she said, especially with someone they've never met before,
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  they said, so no, it's a family trip. We're all going to go to Scotland.
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  So the three of them are hiking for two weeks through the highlands,
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  town to town. They found this program, the map, and it tells you where you can
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  stay and where you can eat.
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  And so they're hiking through the highlands, the three of them.
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  They're sending back amazing pictures.
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  I mean, just amazing, beautiful mountain, you know, countryside,
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  deer just laying next to the road, kind of a live deer.
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  We see deer laying next to the road, and that means something completely different.
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  No, these are live deer just laying down next to the road. He's got a picture.
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  He's about maybe 50 yards from Ten Point Stag.
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  Just a beautiful animal, just standing at the tree line of this meadow. Just gorgeous.
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  So they're going to be back in another week. So he's not helping with the apartment.
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  My three other brothers, two
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  of them work, and they've already taken off a lot of time at the funeral.
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  And so they can't make it in to help. And the other one just had surgery,
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  And he can't lift anything over a pound.
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  So he's not helping. So it's my wife and I trying to sort out this apartment.
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  And so, again, I love my brothers. I love them dearly.
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  But they've said, we'd like to have this of mobs. Well, this tends to be a huge piece of furniture.
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  We can't come get it yet. So hold on to it for us. Well, they don't seem to understand that we're,
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  The lease is up in a few days. There is no holding on to it except holding it at my house.
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  So I'm now holding furniture for four other households at my house.
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  And yeah, you can't move without stepping around somebody else's stuff.
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  So it's been a rough week. Been a rough week.
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  But we have this great feast coming up this weekend in the church that I am so looking forward to.
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  And it's because I like Peter and Paul. Paul is my confirmation name.
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  And I took the name Paul for a very good reason. Actually, two very good reasons.
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  We've both been thrown off horses. So I thought we had that in common.
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  And not according to Scripture did he fall off a horse, but according to this
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  famous portrait of Paul's conversion, it shows him being thrown from a horse.
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  So we had that. And then the other thing was, I thought as a kid,
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  if as bad as I am and as bad as Paul was if Christ could still love Paul even though I mean,
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  he kind of egged people on into killing the deacon Stephen and yet,
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  Christ loved him if Christ can love Paul then there's a chance for me too so
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  I took the saint's name of Paul and very happy to have that and then I found
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  out later that Paul was this great orator,
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  great speaker, and a very convincing speaker.
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  And it kind of made me interested in being active in speech club and things
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  like that at high school and spend a little time on the radio.
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  And I've actually gotten worse
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  over the years. So there was a time I was actually pretty good at this.
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  This is not the time, but there was a time I was pretty good at this and enjoyed it a,
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  For me, this is a special feast because it includes Paul.
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  So we're going to talk about the readings of the church and how Peter and Paul's
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  And, well, Peter was never called Pope. No, he wasn't, but that's okay.
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  And so now it's called Pope, which simply means Papa.
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  It's just an informal way of saying Father, a more endearing way,
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  a more casual way of saying Father is Papa, and in the Latin,
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  or the Italian, it's Pope.
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  So, we'll find out how that came to be as far as how the bishop of Rome,
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  Peter, came to be the human leader of the church.
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  So, our first reading this weekend
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  is going to be from the Acts of the Apostles. That's Luke, of course.
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  And you have to remember that Luke came after the resurrection of Christ, and he knew Paul.
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  He traveled with Paul. He wrote letters for Paul when Paul's eyesight was going bad.
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  He was also a bit of a biographer and a church historian.
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  So he realized that the apostles were all starting to die off,
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  most of them being martyred.
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  And he wanted to make sure that the stories they told of their experience with
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  Jesus was properly documented.
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  So Luke went back and started to interview eyewitnesses to find out what they remembered.
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  And out of their stories, He put together two books, actually.
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  We have the Gospel, according to Luke, and then we have Acts,
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  which is like the second part of Luke's Gospel.
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  So Luke writes, In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the church to harm them.
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  He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword.
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  And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also.
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  It was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He had him taken into custody and put
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  into prison, under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each.
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  He intended to bring him before the people after Passover.
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  Peter thus was being kept in prison, but prayer by the church was fervently
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  being made to God on his behalf.
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  On the very night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter,
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  secured by double chains, was sleeping between two soldiers.
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  While outside the door, guards kept watch on the prison.
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  Suddenly, the angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell.
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  He tapped Peter on the side, awakening him, saying, Get up quickly.
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  The chains fell from his wrists.
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  The angel said to him, Put on your belt and your sandals. He did so.
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  Then he said to him, Put on your cloak and follow me.
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  So he followed him out, not realizing that what was happening through the angel
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  was real, he thought he was seeing a vision.
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  They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate leading
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  out to the city, which opened for them by itself.
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  They emerged and made their way down an alley, and suddenly the angel left him. The word of the Lord.
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  So we see right there that God has a special plan for Peter,
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  and he's protecting Peter to an extent that is really miraculous.
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  So where does that lead us to? Well, we're going to go now to a letter from Paul to Timothy.
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  And I'm going to try and get through this reading, and it's going to be difficult
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  for me because this was one of the readings from my mother's funeral just two weeks ago.
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  This was the second reading of her funeral mass that she selected like 10 years ago,
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  which when I read through it, really amazed me because it was so close to where
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  she was at this point just a few weeks ago in her own life.
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  When she picked this out, she was still healthy and mobile. She hadn't had her ostomy surgery yet.
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  She wasn't in a wheelchair. She wasn't even using a cane. And we went to a friend's
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  funeral mass, and she loved the mass so much, she said, this is what I want for my funeral.
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  And so I put the program aside, and we recreated it for my mom's funeral a couple weeks ago.
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  So this reading meant a lot to her before she was sick.
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  And what's interesting is this letter to Timothy was written towards the end of Paul's life.
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  He's in captivity. He's nearly blind.
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  He's needing others to write his letters for him, to scribe for him, and he's exhausted.
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  He's been doing Christ's work now for years.
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  He's traveled literally thousands of miles, and he knows his life's coming to an end.
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  He's about to be executed, and this is what Paul writes.
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  I, Paul, am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand.
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  I have competed well. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
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  From now on, the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord,
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  the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me,
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  but to all who have longed for His appearance.
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  The Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation
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  might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it.
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  And I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
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  The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to His heavenly kingdom.
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  To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen. The word of the Lord.
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  So, Paul is experiencing his mortality.
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  He understands he's at the end of his life, but he also understands he's done the best he can.
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  And now he's awaiting the promise of heaven that Christ makes to all of us,
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  to those who obey him and follow him.
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  And Paul's saying, I did that. I did what was asked of me.
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  I did it to the fullness of my ability, but now I'm exhausted and I realize
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  the end of my life is coming and I look forward to the life to come in heaven.
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  And that's how my mother passed. I know that's how my father-in-law passed with
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  those same feelings, my dad.
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  And if you right now are feeling those same things that Paul was feeling,
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  have faith, have courage.
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  This is but a journey for us. This is not our ending.
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  Our death is simply an opening a door to a new life if you spent your life in Christ.
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  And it's sometimes scary to look at that. I know myself, my worry isn't that
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  God doesn't exist or heaven doesn't exist or Christ isn't our Savior.
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  My fear is I haven't done enough. And I think that's the fear of a lot of people.
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  They don't fear heaven. They don't fear God. They fear their own brokenness.
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  And perhaps I haven't lived up to what I need to do.
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  Perhaps I'm just, I'm not heaven material.
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  I think that's what bothers a lot of people. But my mother and my dad and my
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  father-in-law all had great confidence that they ran the good race,
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  and they did everything that God asked them to do,
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  and they were ready, and they faced their death without any fear.
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  That doesn't mean they faced it without pain, but they faced it without fear.
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  Again, knowing this is not our destination, our home and our destination has
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  always been meant to be heaven.
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  Our gospel reading is from Matthew, and this really sets up the papal authority within the church.
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  When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
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  who do people say that the Son of Man is?
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  And they replied, some say John
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  the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.
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  And he said to them, but who do you say that I am?
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  And Simon Peter said in reply, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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  And Jesus said to him in reply, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah,
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  for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.
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  And so I say to you, You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,
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  and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
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  I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth
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  shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in
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  heaven. The gospel of the Lord.
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  So, just a little catechesis here. So many people think of Peter with the keys
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  to the gates of heaven. And this doesn't talk about the gates of heaven.
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  It talks about the kingdom of God. It talks about the gates of hell.
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  So often in art, cartoons, graphics, we see Peter sitting at these big wrought
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  iron gates up on a cloud, like that's how you enter heaven is through these
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  gates and Peter's standing guard.
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  That's not what they're talking about here in the gospel. You have to remember
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  that in biblical times, when the head of a household went on a journey,
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  someone had to be in charge of the house while he was gone.
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  Someone had to make sure the servants got paid, that the crops got taken care
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  of, got harvested, got put into storage, that those crops in storage were distributed
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  among the family or among the village at the right season in the right amounts.
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  So this was, they would pick to do this, their most trusted servant and give them the keys to,
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  to the granary, and the keys to the treasury, and the keys to the buildings, right, and the homes.
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  That person was called the steward. So, Peter was given these keys,
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  the stewardship of the church.
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  Christ is saying, I'm going, but I'm coming back, and while I'm gone,
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  you are my steward. You are in charge of my household.
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  Well, Christ's household is the church.
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  So, he made Peter the key keeper of the church.
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  And so, all of Peter's successors have that same responsibility.
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  But we're disciples and apostles too. We're stewards of the church.
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  We have that same responsibility in our own parish to care for it like we care
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  for our own home, to keep it secure, to keep it in good repair, right?
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  So, remember that when you think about how you use your resources,
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  your time, your talent, your treasures that you use on your own home,
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  are you making those available to your church home, your parish home?
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  Because we are all stewards of our own parish, just as the Pope is the steward
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  of the universal church. I'm out of time.
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  John's waving at me that he needs to go get some sleep and I need to get off
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  the air. So thank you so much for listening.
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  We hope that this brought good news to your life. Remember that we all carry
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  the characteristics of Peter and Paul.
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  We're all being called to the service of Christ.
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  And may Almighty God bless you, protect you from all evil, and bring you to
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  everlasting life. Amen.
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