Holiness Conference 1/5: What is Holiness? ~ Fr. Ripperger
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As a recently born again Catholic after having being lost for about 35 years, I can't thank you enough for these videos. Father Ripperger's teachings are a great pillar for me in learning the right and true things about Catholicism. God bless Father Ripperger 🙏✝. Love from France.
Same here.
@@keithyost9249 Welcome Home... ✝🩸🙏
@Manoli_Ntvh Welcome Home... ✝🩸🙏
I don't think i would say "born again Catholic" That's a protestant thing, we refer to ourselves as "reverts". I've been back for over 30yrs...welcome home. Have you seen the video called "Catholics come home"?? Awesome ... it will melt you❤
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That's why Pope Bergoglio, has such camaraderie with Martin Luther.
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I recently returned back to the Catholic Church after being away for over 20 years. Thanks be to God because He kept working on my soul even after I betrayed Him. It is humbling and I pray for His grace every day.
God is calling you. Amen to that!
Amen!
Welcome Home ... ✝🩸🙏
Let us offer a Rosary for Father Ripperger.
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I will and think of him often... During my prayers in the rosary.
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Good idea.
Great idea. I already pray for him and his intentions daily
Father Ripperger is the only priest I listen to anymore on TH-cam. He speaks with such clarity and conviction. Praise God for the graces He gives to Father and for the gift of His priesthood. God will always provide EVERYTHING we need, even in these times.
There are some other good ones more suited to us less intellectual types. You might want to listen to them too. They too have great insights.
Fr Vincent Lampert is another great one, I learn so much from these true Shepards of the church!
@RestoreJustice675 As Authentic True Catholics we must be very careful about being misguided by appearances and self-serving feelings that are so crazily popular today. Father Ripperger has great intellectual background but his Jesus-centered spiritual core far surpasses that. His intelect is just the sharp X-rays and radar to detect false Jesuses and disguised lies. We must grow to be the same.
Thats faith because the fatherland when we die is not here on earth but in Heaven.
I feel the same way. He's one of the few I listen to.
I'm really not smart enough to immediately understand Fr. R. But I love listening to him and so I listen more than once. After listening again I can get one or two points to practice in my life. I'm blessed. Thank you Father.
Me too!
Father Ripperger is trually blessing for us form God. Pray for him so we could get to east the spritual food preapred by him with his sermons and talks for years
I pray my rosaries for the intentions of myself my family and the whole world. Come Holy Spirit desend on me and fill me with samctifying grace. Bring me to heaven along with everyone else.
Jesus, I thank you, I praise you, I honor you and I love you. Forgive me of sins. Take care of everything. I trust in you forever❤❤❤❤
Amen 🌄
This is pure gold!
The Devil has robbed us blind of The Grace we never even knew we were supposed to have. Thank You Father for restoring us to the Sanctifying Grace we should have always had, from birth to baptism until the end of our lives, but no one knew any of this to tell us, our parents and their parents, teachers, schools, government, etc.
Another one!!! I am loving these Fr Ripperger uploads! Thank you brother! 👍🙏📿💪
My understanding is that its a teaching of the church that you cannot pray, repent or even have a good thought unless God first gives you the actual grace necessary to do so.
So i cannot repent without grace, I cannot pray for mercy without grace, i cannot go to confession without grace.
That sounds about right to me. Let us hope we both are.
The clearest mouthpiece of God in the present day, prophet's prophet. I just don't with the low views..
You may have noticed a diminishing in the appreciation of high quality of any kind in any area. Pray that God would make all of humanity into holy and true Catholic Saints. God loves really big prayers like that as he is an infinite God. Pray hard and leave the results to him.
Always great spiritual information.
I love to hear fr. Ripperger more than before he talks slower now bec. English is not my main language. And in every topic he tackles is very inspiring . Very convincing. And as if you feel the presence of God in him
Click Settings (the little gear at the bottom right of the video) -> Playback Speed -> 1.25 or 1.5 for even slower. Now you can watch the older vids. :)
THANK YOU for trying to educate humans on this issue. 🙏🎁💗🙏💗🙏🎁💗🙏🕊️
Thank you Fr. Ripperger and greetings from Manila
This explains the understanding of the Fatima children St. Jacinta, St. Francisco and St. Lucia.
Yes please don’t add music next time! Very distracting. God bless.
Excellent teaching from Fr Ripperger as always!!!
Thanks!
? Why is there a music track playing in the background? Could it be removed and reposted?
Background music sooooooo irritating and distracting
Thank you Father Ripperger
God with you!
FANTASTIC Series Fr. God Bless You!
The music is disturbing. Can you upload without it?
The opening music?
@@siggymartin no, it's very soft in volume and can be heard during a portion of the lecture. Very annoying.
I love it.
Thank you so much for the sermon. Can you please not have music in the background? It’s distracting. I’m sorry about asking you this. God bless you 🙏
Why is there a faint recording of Gregorian Chant playing in the background while Fr. Ripperger is speaking? It’s really distracting.
Thank you Fr Chad Ripperger.
Missing Mass on Sunday without a just cause is a mortal sin.
Miss Mass on Sundays and Holy days, Poof all sanctifying grace is gone.
Glad to see another conference! Thank you!!
Fr. Ripperger your TH-cam videos and episodes that you give is for me a virtual spiritual director in theological teacher. Here in New York City I ran into some priests from your area in Colorado who were here for the celebration of the sisters of life, at St Patrick's cathedral recently. I let them know for priests like you to preach from the pulpit. We need to know the real Catholic doctrine and tradition. We can no longer be anger around like lost sheep. I pray for the priest.. and I appreciate you for guidance and opening up of these doors for their homilies. For their weekly gatherings in teaching to the parishioners.
Through the Divine intervention in a dream that I went to the University of Saint Thomas in Houston Texas. This was in 1992. I believe it was Saint Mary's where the priest went to seminary School. Maybe you were there then, too. I was confirmed Catholic I was confirmed in 1995. In 2012 I had my birth records unsealed by judge in Detroit Michigan. My biological father was in Armenian Catholic. Is truly lovely to be careful. 🕊️❤️🔥✨
I'm waiting 😢
This talk needs to be scetched and written as a graph or a mental map. Phantastic knowledge of tradition grapihcally said and laid down
Fathers conferances are Gold as usual
How can the Protestants follow a religion started by a murderer? And not follow the one established by Jesus? I feel sorry for them for being misled
Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives, the youngest of whom was 14. And yes, some of them were already married when he married them.
I’m sorry, I don’t usually argue against Fr Ripperger, but when he said “God only likes one thing: himself”, why does Genesis 1 say that he found his creation “good”? Why does Wisdom 11 say of him “you love all things that are, for you would not fashion what you hated”?
Thank you. You have helped me udderstand.
I see fr ripperger, I click video
God bless Fr. Ripperger
Eagerly waiting for the next part of this conference!!
I am finding the Gregorian chanting?/music in the background terribly distracting.. is there any way to remove it?
35:47 love that church!!! Its in Mexico City!!!
Background music: distracting
Does anyone know where Fr. Ripperger gives the conferences or how to sign up?
Wondering same thing
I looked for a traditional Catholic retreat (any traditional Catholic retreat, not strictly Fr. Ripperger's) for about 4 years before I stumbled on one announced at my parish that usually wouldn't have been announced. They don't get advertised publicly, it seems to be more word-of-mouth, and within organizations connected somehow to the retreat master.
I'd guess your best bet is to join some organization that is somehow connected to Fr. Ripperger, in some way that you probably won't find out about until after you've joined.
So glad they're on youtube.
Wow ! I guess what Luther describes as a dark and stormy night doesn't quite touch truth........not even his truth .
I am in the waiting room ❤
Luther was not holy.
Unfortunately. He was not.
So father, how does this work for people who were once Catholics and now they are Protestant but live a life trying to please God? They don’t receive graces?
Is there a Gregorian chant playing in the background?
Please take the gregorian chant in the background because it is working as a distraction! :(
It’s great.
Very good to get the audio. Extremely distracting to have random visual effects pop up in the presentation... I wound up putting a doubled cloth over the tv so I could concentrate on the words. I object to someone trying to push emotional laden images into my mind ... unless they are consistent with the audio material. Obviously Fr. Ripperger was writing on a blackboard ... but ... just saying. This is also a sort of 300 level lecture where one needs to 1. take notes and 2. Go over the recording more than once.
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Glorious'O"Sacramentum"
Reading the book on Grace you recommended. “If You Knew The Gift Of God.” By Cliff Ermatinger. Excellent BOOK ALL CATHOLICS should read. Unbelievable I never knew this information. It’s an incredible book. Life changing on Knowing how grace works.
It IS an excellent book! I am blessed to have Fr. Cliff as my spiritual director 🙏🏻
@@mschoirtchr you are so blessed. I found a priest in my area to help me as I think I’m in a place now after following Father Ripperger videos and study with Mental Prayer. I’m in need of some guidance.
No wonder we're told to seek so we can find. Growing up in Kenya, no one has ever talked about Holiness this way let alone teach it.
A much simpler definition of Sanctifying Grace is the 'Indwelling of the Holy Ghost' - this is what 'Elevates' us to the Supernatural order and makes a friendship with God even possible.
Holiness is simply yielding to the Holy Ghost, who gives us a constant inclination toward doing Good.
This whole talk was predicated upon 'sufficient' Grace and not EFFICACIOUS Grace: Man saves himself 'with the help of God' - that's a HERESY known as SEMI-PELAGIANISM.
In reality, it is GOD who saves Man with the assent of his Free will.
We are all free to reject EFFICACIOUS Grace and, unfortunately, most of us do.
You should tell your listeners about EFFICACIOUS Grace, Father, which is a perfectly VALID 'alternative' school of thought in the Church instead of presenting 'sufficient' Grace as is if it were the only available option...
Those who are truly interested in Holiness would be eternally grateful.
There is a Gregorian chant being sung behind the voice of Fr. Ripperger
Father has said we should have Gregorian chants playing very low in the background in our homes 24 hours a day because demons hate it
I found it distracting at the beginning, and after a few minutes it seemed to be turned way down or off. Yes, Fr. recommends having Gregorian chant playing, but as a musician, I am not able to tune it out if I need to listen to something else.
@@Duckiemomma1205I don’t think so, if it causes distraction that is not good and silence is very important and necessary for good prayer life
@@mschoirtchrme too
I don't know why I can't hear it. 😅 I'm on mobile and turn the volume up, nothing! 🤔
It was St Gertrude
in domino
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Benedictus Deus ✝️🛐🛐🛐
0:00 Freeing oneself from all sin and attachments to sin, with sin or pride persistence in sin and anything leading to sin, loss of grace…and lack of actually from the heart kindness, not boasting nor payback, or uncaring… not holding grudges, grumpy or perseverance in oneself but directed toward God actually in attention and not what anyone else thinks, because only God should matter. Evildoers do evil with as much conviction, so goes that tsunami. Keep praying heads up from where should come our help! Not in Principalities or Powers, but in the Lord time, He will finish with time and deliver all men to their justice and life meted out, pressing down and flowing over… may never ‘mène teckel parés’ reach ears of ours.
And then there’s the Evangelical Counsels! To those who are clever enough and who don’t die while fighting serpents from superiors Then! Then only then will we say super- natural! Which of those who have said that and claim that they kill people in the process with their high powered scopes, of course and send the neighbors into hell spirals, of which they then will be sure to say “they dug a pit and fell in it themselves!” Reach down, why, they should know to dig themselves out! Of course 2030 plan should have questioned it! Oh foresight is it?…by dead Hans Kung, is that it? Is it jezebel who wants something, that witch of jealousy. Nothing new as it is we who are about to die salute you…? What faith will Jesus Christ find on earth still able and active…?
Vade retro Satana ☘️✝️☦️
??? very incoherent... St. Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Everytime I listen to Rip...never fails that I grab pen/paper and WRITE Rip's wealth of information down! ❤
I am hearing music or chant in the background.
I'd love to know where some of these magnificent Churches are.
Jesus Jesus Jesus 🙏❤️
But if we dont take our intellects or wills to purgatory how can we suffer? (About 35mins in)
Is this a new lecture about the old topic or a reupload?
For those with background noise? Most likely attacks from the enemy.
I do not hear any background noise today . So, they either fixed it, or my ad blocker is keeping them away? I'm already up to 511 blocks just for this video. Only halfway through too!
What is the title of the book that Ripperger references at @4:19?
I've been stabbed in the back in heaps of lives i figured that make me holy.
I try & watch some of these TH-cam pics & others, something/entity manifests over the fone.
So there's a spirit floating around on TH-cam.
I have to turn it off half the time.
It could be in the house or just using frequencies to travel.
PERPETUAL ENERGY IS NATURAL LAW.
PERPETUAL ENERGY IS GODS LAW!
I wish you would list the names of the churches that are shown in the videos
So basically in order to get to heaven we must have the understanding of a theologian on all the particular aspects of grace, the virtues, sanctifying actions, etc. or else we’re doomed…the more I listen to Father Ripperger the more confused and discouraged I get.
Not necessarily, for it's written: "If I have all knowledge but have not love, I am nothing." (see 1 Cor 13)
I think a simpler approach could be stated as:
1) stay in the state of grace (regular sacraments & prayer), and
2) do good (aligned with God's will as well as one can tell)
How does one find out where Fr. Ossining a conference? I would love to attend such conferences because it will give me a chance to ask questions. This conference is mind blowing and it shows just how rich our Catholic Faith is! I have to keep a note book and I write things down as I listen hoping that these talks will stay longer in my small capacity of a memory. God bless all His priests especially Fr. Ripperger. 🕊🙏💒💙❤️
If God is pleased with Himself and what has His likeness, would He not also be pleased with the natural true, good, and beautiful (but in an analogously lesser way)?
Homily on holiness. Beautiful pictures of cathedrals. Why in the first 3 minutes are you labeling a man’s wives as among the “ugliest women” imaginable. How might such a mean spirited comment make the thousands of women who look to you for guidance in their spiritual lives feel and think about themselves, women who consider themselves ugly, less worthy, unloveable. Please tell me Father, is that a sin and, if so, how serious is that sin? God is love. Is your comment categorizing some women as so ugly that they are beyond a man’s choosing them for marriage a loving statement? I think of it as massively unkind.
Holiness is believing the following:
Ephesians 2:8 KJV "For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of GOD: 9 not of works, lest any man should boast."
“So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.”
Gods gives us the grace. When we cooperate with this grace, while in a state of grace (“justified,” without any mortal sin on our soul) our cooperation is meritorious.
@@Kingship.of.Christ Grace means "free" as in a free gift. Merit means works of some sort. Ephesians 2:8 KJV "For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of GOD: 9 not of works, lest any man should boast."
Romans 5:12 KJV 12 Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
I could go on but then I would have to quote the entire Holy Scriptures to you.
Let me see if I understood a part of this lecture correctly: if I am in a state of mortal sin, when I pray, there is nothing there but breath and sound. Or, if I go to mass in a state of mortal sin, it means that I'm just in a holy building listening to a priest and, on my part, I'm just making breath and sound for one hour, nothing more?
In state of mortal sin, all that is holy is ultimately meaningless to the person. Is that so or am I missing something here?
Can somenone help me with this? Thanks...
There's no supernatural merit from anything a person does, while they are in a state of mortal sin. That doesn't mean there are no effects whatsoever from anything good a person does while in a state of mortal sin. Just no supernatural effects, because it's God's presence in the soul that produces supernatural effects.
In a state of mortal sin, the person can still work on breaking bad habits and forming good ones, and make an effort to incline themselves toward receiving the actual grace of repentance. It won't win heaven, because only Christ can do that for us, but if and when the sanctifying grace is restored, it'll probably help them stay in a state of grace afterwards. (Not adding mortal sins, like skipping Mass, on top of the one already committed is also very helpful.) Take a hypothetical drunkard in a state of mortal sin, who gets marooned on a desert island with plenty of food and whiskey. If he foregoes the whiskey and breaks the habit, after God gives him the grace of repentance, and he gets rescued and goes to Confession, is he likely to suddenly start getting drunk again? To be clear, you shouldn't wait to go to Confession until after you break the bad habit of sin, but clearly you can work on bad habits on a natural level and on the basis of God's actual grace, even while you have no sanctifying grace.
It's not that holiness is meaningless to a person in mortal sin, they just don't have it, and can't get it without receiving entirely unearned grace from God.
@@duathellto1460 Thanks, your comments make me meditate further on the matter. God be with you.
@@duathellto1460 "(...)That doesn't mean there are no effects whatsoever from anything good a person does while in a state of mortal sin. Just no supernatural effects, because it's God's presence in the soul that produces supernatural effects.(...)".
This made me think of a conundrum of sorts: ins't the human soul supernatural in some way since we are created at image and resamblance of God? And if it is, then wouldn't the human being also capable of something , albeit very small, supernatural?
Thanks again for your comment.
@@douglasmotta5971 By Thomistic definitions, everything created by God is natural, and the soul is created by God. I think the reason for this categorization is that it clearly divides the things that God does from the things we do, and also the things that are finite, from the One who is infinite. Since many of our faculties reside in the soul, it would be a bit unusual to say that our thinking and perception are supernatural, right?
You might say that the creation of a soul is supernatural, since God does that. The initial creation of the entire material universe was also supernatural. And to some extent, everything God made resembles Him in some way and points toward who He is.
Where do we get the continuation of this conference?
They will be posted the coming days.
When can i see part 2 of this conference?? Thank you!!
Is there singing in the background? 🙏🙏🙏
Does someone have a transcript of his opening prayer? I can’t decipher what he says before “..through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
Direct, O Lord, all our actions by Thy holy inspiration and carry them out by Thy gracious assistance, so that every prayer and work of ours may begin from Thee, and by Thee be happily concluded.
@@duathellto1460 many thanks!
Vivat Christus Rex!🙏💚💛🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷💛💚🙏
What does he mean a certain amount of merit must be achieved 25-26min mark
Where do these conferences take place?
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You know several times I have illuminated images used by Fr. Ripperger’s videos illustrate people not in the state of grace!
Please pay attention to close, highlighting images of people’s features such as close ups of eyes, mouths, ears, hands, faces. Some of these actually portray real, existing people involved in grievous sin! Can it be? Well it is!
Ask the exorcist!?
Please find an illustrator able and capable in spiritual discernment. The present person/people are not! Peace.
May God provide and have mercy on any not willing nor committed to His Majesty and grace!
Lord, please make us holy, amen.
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That's perhaps why, Pope Bergoglio, has such camaraderie & affection for the heretic: Father Martin Luther !?
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How does a Catholic know they are saved? Can a Catholic ever know? If someone has mortal sin and goes to church, does good works, has faith and trust, and prays they are not be saved?
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Is he saying that if a person isn’t in the state of grace , to not even bother praying?
Get in a state of grace
A person who is not in a state of grace should pray in order to make and keep themselves receptive to the grace of repentance, so they can get into a state of grace as soon as possible.
Father, I found it very pertubing when a Missionary of Charity Sister( Mother Teresa's Order) upon being asked whether they took the opportunity of Baptising dying infants and others also dying,(in their last moments of life, derelict and alone)..., to be told that 'Mother' said it was ( somehow) not necessary..!. Whether by Direction of Our Lord Personally to her or not - was not revealed to me..could you please clarify this for me, good Father. Thankyou.
The intro is way to long.
Those who allow evil to act, are evil.
17:25
That is an Omerta!! It is only done through the Omerta. Free will and accord is always present in the Omerta...
Does a Chimera have soul?
If its alive it has a soul but doesn’t mean that soul is like a human soul which is a both soul and spirit together as one
OMG yes innosence is the SAME AS CHASTITIY!! or CLEAN WHITE HEART! That is what leads you to heaven!! not sanctifying grace, the term you abuse so much!!! It's all through the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy SPIRIT!!! sanctifying grace is what you made up, everything you get comes from 7 gifts! talents etc! God's gifts, no need to talk about grace!!but THE FRUTIS!! How many of the 12 fruits does one have!!!! you should be talking about fruits, and in the Catechism there is nothing about those!!! as well as gifts!!! and this term grace just confuses people! how many times is that word used in the Bible!!??? how many times is the Holy Spirit named!! you should talk proportionate to the Bible terms not make up your own terms and confuse people. Fruits of thy womb!! Fruits of our SOul! is what will lead to heaven and one can not get chastity without all other fruits in place
this is nonsense! we are supernatural from the very first day we are baptized! Of course, it is our choice to walk as supernatural or natural.....the path is on us! why do we talk about grace anyway?? when that is Holy SPIRiT!!! in Catholic church among priests one will here grace like zillion times, but Holy spirit maybe once or twice, why is that so?? i suppose this is lack of TRUE UNDERSTANDING of heart. You contradict yourself SO MUCH when you say intellectual activity is spiritual, whatever is SPIRITUAL IS SUPERNATURAL BY DEFINITION!!! Satan is SUPERNATURAL as well.....or is he not?? I am amazed that people love so much complication: yes we are not god, we are creatures! Jesus Lord help us learn that simplicity IS your thing!
Why are some people more masculine or feminine then others?
So Fr., don't you want to lead by example?...
Tell us about your struggle to achieve, by Sanctifying Grace, the great spiritual gift of Ontological Holiness. I present this challenge ironically because i recognize your capacity for spiritual blindness. I'm convinced that very few devout Catholics really grasp the terrifying power that Original Sin has over our being.
It still astonishes me at the number of priests who preach to their flocks..."how to become holy", as though holiness has nothing to do with the priest giving the sermon. And they don't appear to see the contradiction or hypocrisy.
In Fr. Chad's case, he is the author of brilliantly informed books on many Catholic concerns including holiness, in conformity with the church's moral doctrines.
He suggests that those who "desire" holiness, KNOW WHAT THEY ARE AIMING FOR. That statement contains an inherent contradiction. If the priest comes to know what he desires, that means in essence, that he is already Holy. Period.
Ir's impossible to know what holiness is conceptually, through prayer, yearning, intention. Holiness comes from submitting to the arduous journey that is absolutely essential, and it's full of great struggle, pain.
To entertain the journey is only possible when one's immortal soul is imbued with great self-sacrificing love for Christ. Anything less that that is nonsense.
One ends up deluded, a plethora of concepts, which in another context i would think of as a "booby prize". That does not surprize me since you are a gifted theologian, exorcist, writer of voluminous tomes. Yet your attachment to abstract knowledge is amazing. Unfortunately, it is also a prison.
To KNOW ones interior psychological & spiritual life PERSONALLY and INTIMATELY, that is to "KNOW" ones hidden self as subject and act, to know just how pathetic we are with our grandiose egoes is truly the greatest gift God can bless us with.
And it's only possible with a never ending inflow into our immortal souls, of SANCTIFYING GRACES.
Absolute TRUST in Christ's infinite love for us is essential, but how can we trust when the cost is so high and our Catholic faith, though authentic, is CONDITIONAL?
God bless
Wth? You still have vices in heaven??? Isnt that why you go to purgatory? Pretty sure he gave that reason himself earlier (43mins)