3 JUL 2024 · In this episode we discuss the veneration of relics, papal Infallibility, Independence Day, our Catholic founder, Charles Carroll and I give advice on cooking sweet corn. THE VENERATION OF RELICS The name of relic is given to the remains of the saints, as well as to objects that have been closely connected with Christ or the saints. Relics are deserving of veneration for this reason, because the bodies of the saints were temples of the Holy Ghost, and instruments whereby He worked; and they will rise glorious from the grave. - We honor the relics of the saints by preserving them with reverence, and visiting the spot where they are deposited. - We obtain many blessings from God by venerating relics.. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

2 JUL 2024 · In this episode we discuss the veneration of Images, a practice begun by the Holy Apostles.By sacred pictures or statues are meant representations of Christ, of the saints, or of the truths of religion. Pictures or statues of saints, by means of which or before which miracles have been worked, are called miraculous images. Above all representations of the saints or of holy things, we venerate the cross of Our Redeemer. 1. We honor the images of the saints by giving them a place in our dwellings ; we say our prayers before them, we salute them respectfully, we adorn them with offerings, we make pilgrimages to their shrines. 2. Through venerating the images of the saints, efficacious and oftentimes supernatural graces are obtained; they are also useful as a means of avoiding distractions in prayer, and affording us a silent admonition. . Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

1 JUL 2024 · In this episode we discuss the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mother.  The veneration we pay to Mary is distinct from the adoration due to God. Exalted honor is due to Mary, but the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost alone, do we adore. 1, Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, is usually called the Mother of God or the Most Blessed Virgin. 2.We pay greater honor to Mary, the Mother of Christ, than to any other saint. 3. We hold Mary in such great veneration because she is the Mother of God and our Mother. 4. Another reason why Mary is so highly honored throughout Christendom, is because God has exalted her above all men and angels. 5. Finally, we entertain this great veneration for Mary, be cause her intercession is more powerful with God than that of any other saint. 6. Devotion to the Mother of God is an excellent means of at taining sanctity here below and eternal happiness hereafter. . Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

26 JUN 2024 · In this episode we discuss the veneration of Saints, which is Biblical and very traditional to Christianity. We call those saints who died in the grace of God, and who are already in heaven, more especially those whom the Church has canonized. - We honor the saints because they are the friends of God, princes of the heavenly court, and benefactors to ourselves; also because we obtain great graces from God through venerating them. - We venerate the saints if we entreat their intercession with God, if we celebrate their feasts, reverence their images and their relics; if we bear their name, claim their protection in matters of importance, and praise them in word and song. The best manner in which to venerate them is to imitate their virtues. - The veneration we pay to the saints does* not in the least detract from the honor due to God, for we only reverence the saints for God's sake, and by no means do we reverence them in the way that we reverence God, but only because they are the servants of God. - It is advisable under different circumstances of life to invoke certain saints. . Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

25 JUN 2024 · In this episode we discuss Idolatry, false gods, superstition, fortune-telling and the occult. - Idolatry is the worship of a creature which is regarded as a deity; e.g., the sun, fire, animals, images, etc. - Another form of idolatry is when a human being gives up his whole self to a creature. - The service of idols is high treason against the majesty of God, and the most heinous of sins. FOOLISH OR PERVERTED WORSHIP - Superstition, fortune-telling, spiritualism, and magic, are foolish and irrational forms of worship. - Fortune-telling or soothsaying is the attempt to discover hidden or future events by means of things that are not in themselves calculated to reveal them. - Spiritualism is the invocation of spirits in view of learning what is hidden from human ken. - Magic or sorcery is the invocation of spirits in order to produce miraculous effects. This perverted form of worship is a grievous sin. Sins Against the First Commandment. The First Commandment of God is transgressed: - By neglecting prayer. - By opposing religion, either by speaking against the faith, or by the publication or dissemination of books and periodicals hostile to the faith, or by joining associations of an anti-Chris tian character. - By worshipping idols or being engrossed in material interests. - By superstitions. - By telling fortunes or having one's fortune told. - By invoking spirits, either for the purpose of searching out what is hidden, or of doing what cannot be done in the ordinary course of nature. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

24 JUN 2024 · In this episode we begin to discuss the 1st Commandment. In the First Commandment God enjoins upon us to worship Him, and forbids idolatry and every false form of worship. - The adoration we pay to God consists in this: That we ac knowledge both in our hearts and by our actions that He is Our Lord and we are His creatures and His servants. - We worship God interiorly by acts of faith, hope, and charity. - We adore God exteriorly by vocal prayer, sacrifice, genuflections, prostrations, folding of hands, striking the breast, etc. - We ought to pay God exterior worship, because we are bound to render Him the homage of our bodies, and because it serves to increase our interior devotion ; furthermore, external worship answers to a need inherent in our human nature. - We ought never to render external adoration to God without having awakened within us the corresponding senti ments of devotion. - We ought to avoid all exaggeration in devotion, and never omit the duties of our state in life. - We must pay supreme worship to God only, for He alone is the sovereign Lord of heaven and of earth, Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

19 JUN 2024 · In this episode we begin to discuss the 10 Commandments. - The Ten Commandments were given by God to the Jews on Mount Sinai. - We Christians are bound to observe the Ten Commandments of God, both because God has imprinted them upon the human heart, and because Christ laid them upon us anew in a more full and perfect form. - The Ten Commandments of God are arranged in order. - He who keeps all these commandments receives a great re ward from God on earth, and after death he may look forward to eternal felicity as his portion. - Temporal and eternal chastisements await the man who grievously violates a single one of these commandments. - It is not a difficult matter to keep these commandments as long as God helps us with His grace; hence Christ says to His followers: "My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matt. xi. 30). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

18 JUN 2024 · In this episode we discuss the love and importance of friends, how to love your enemies and why you must also love yourself. LOVE OF ONE'S FRIENDS - We call those men friends whose principles are the same as ours, and who cherish mutual good will, mutually support one another, and hold confidential intercourse one with another. - Those only are true friends whose friendship is based upon principles of religion. - Those are false friends whose friendship rests on principles that are reprehensible; they ruin one another body and soul, and forsake one another in the time of adversity. - It is not wrong to have friends, and to love them more than other men; for Christ had friends whom He loved with a special predilection. - It is a great happiness for us to have true friends, for they add greatly to the enjoyment of life, and preserve us from dangers of soul and body. - One must not be rash in forming friendships, nor must one do wrong to please a friend. THE COMMANDMENT TO LOVE OUR ENEMY - We ought to love our enemies because Christ commands it; He says: "Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you; pray for them that persecute and calumniate you " (Matt. v. 44). - The love of our enemy is shown in this: That we do not revenge ourselves on him, that we return good for evil, that we pray for him and forgive him willingly. - He who does not revenge himself on his enemy, or who even confers benefits upon him, puts his foe to shame and pacifies him, and will be rewarded by God; whereas he who hates his enemy and revenges himself on him commits a sin. - He who forgives his enemy will obtain forgiveness of his sins from God; but he who will not forgive his enemy God will not forgive. THE LOVE OF ONE'S SELF Among all classes of men each one is his own nearest neighbor. Consequently every man ought to love himself. The true love of one's self shows itself herein, that we strive to attain that which will procure our real happiness; first and foremost our eternal felicity, and then such earthly things as are conducive to the attainment of eternal felicity. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

17 JUN 2024 · In this episode we discuss Saint Peter as the Rock upon which Christ founded His Church, the lack charity toward one's neighbor and how envy is the root of sin. - He who does not desire the good of his neighbor, but is envious of him, does not possess the love of his neighbor. - We call a man envious who merely through ill-will is vexed at the prosperity of another, or rejoices when misfortune overtakes him. - No sin renders man so much like the devil as envy, for envy is peculiarly the devil's sin. - Envy is most hurtful to a man; it robs him of inward content and bodily health; it leads to many cruel actions and finally to eternal perdition. - The best means of overcoming feelings of envy is to do all the good we possibly can to our fellow-men. - He does not love his neighbor who injures him, whether in regard to his life, his innocence, his property, his honor, or his household. - Nor does he love his neighbor, who performs no works of mercy. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.

13 JUN 2024 · In this episode we discuss the love of the world and charity toward one's neighbor. - The love of the world consists in loving, above all, money, or the gratification of one's appetite, or earthly honors or anything else in the world, instead of giving the first place to God. - Through love of the world we incur the loss of sanctifying grace, and eternal felicity. - The love of the world blinds the soul of man, and leads him away from God. - The love of the world destroys interior peace, and makes men fear death greatly. - The love of the world gives rise to hatred of God and of His servants. - The love of the world ceases at death. THE COMMANDMENT OF CHARITY TOWARDS OUR NEIGHBOR - We ought to love our neighbor because this is Christ's command; furthermore because he is a child of God, made after His image, and also because we are all descended from the same parents and we are all called to attain eternal felicity. - The love of our neighbor shows itself in desiring the good of our neighbor from our heart; in abstaining from injuring him, and in doing him good. - We are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves, but we are by no means obliged to love him better than ourselves. - All that we do to our neighbor, whether it be good or evil, we do to Christ Himself; for He has said: " What you did to one of these My least brethren, ye did it to Me " (Matt. xxv. 40). - Eternal happiness will be the unfailing reward of those who fulfil closely the precept of charity to their neighbor. - The love of one's neighbor is the distinctive mark of the true Christian. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support. Read about my new book: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-daily-catholic-devotional-reflections.html My substack newsletter for The Uncensored Catholic is: https://judsonc.substack.com/ Join our Catholic forums at CatholicsmRocks.org https://www.catholicismrocks.com/forum Missio Dei's site is: https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/ Confirmation, an Autobiography of Faith https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2023/05/confirmation-autobiography-of-faith.html Available in paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47Q1JNK Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-uncensored-catholic--5855002/support.