Eighteenth Sunday ot Deacon Louis Zemlick, The Sacraments Baptism Eucharist Prayer

Isiah 55:1-3 CCC = Catechism Catholic Church CCC694 Holy Spirit,735,2121

Psalm 145:8-9, 15-18 CCC295 God creates by wisdom and love CCC342

Romans 8:35, 37-39 another gap 36 reads As it is written " For your sake we are being killed all the day long, we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered" why leave this out ? let the people hear it Rome. So our CCCis2739  Trust in God not in intellectual clerics or intellectual politicians. PRAY

Gospel Matthew 14:13-21 CCC1329, 1335 what is the sacrament called ? Eucharist, Thanksgiving, Holy Communion, Bread of Life, Christ Body Blood and Divinity. Miracle food, Healing Food, Him the Man Jesus.

thank you Blessed Mother Mary, Our Lady Pray for Us

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Hello, everyone. This is Deacon Louis Zemlick here in the Diocese of Kalmazou. We're glad you're with us here today for this 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Read the Holy Scriptures today and contemplate why they left out a verse verse 36 in Romans chapter 8. It's kind of interesting how this stuff happens and the who and the why. Just little reminders, I think, to let us know that to follow Christ more closely. You know, I think the Catholic Church is a beautiful church. She's a grand church. She's um I love the church so much. Um, but there are there are intellectuals that are in the church who think they are all that in a bag of chips, and they think they know better. Even in the Word of God, which is so shocking. Uh, but why shouldn't it be, right? I mean, we have clerics in the church that that that think sin is okay, or they don't even want to call sin anymore, you know, and it's very, it's very sad. They've become very worldly and uh lost their way, you know, as somebody uh uh referred to Tony Fauci uh this week, uh that he had lost his way somewhere along the way, he had lost his way. And that happens to us, right? Uh it happens to people who are within our families. And so um we're called to be merciful, but we're also called not to follow these people or give them um give them positions of responsibility, although sometimes that doesn't always happen. But the greatest news is, my brothers and sisters, is our very own uh Bishop Edward Losey uh from the Diocese of Kalamazoo and the and the diocese of um of Steubenville as well. He he shepherds over these two dioceses. Um and I couldn't think it'd happen to a better person. And of course, great congratulations to uh Archbishop uh Corleone as well from San Francisco. But um I understand you know Pope Leo, uh thanks be to God. I think he's just uh I think he's really guiding the church in in very beautiful ways and showing that uh he wants to hear all the voices of the church. And uh just I'm just uh you know, I've always been I've always been impressed with with basically with every bishop who's ever I've ever served under and who has ever shepherd the church around here. You know, maybe they don't not exactly what you want, but you know, nobody or no thing is exactly what you want, right? Follow Jesus, uh listen to the Blessed Mother, listen to the Holy Spirit, listen to the saints, and um you'll do well for yourself. So also this week, uh to go through the list really quick. So congratulations, Bishop Losi, out there. Um you're you are uh to be honored and respected for for everything that you do for our diocese here. Um so the other feast days that are coming up this week, and even on this very day this same very day, there's Saint Eusebius of Vernchurley, Saint Peter and Julian Faber from 1868, Saint uh on the third, eight three is Saint John the Baptiste, Marie Viani, priest, pray for more priests. Uh on 8-4, the dedication of Saint Mary Major in Rome. Also on that day, Saint Blessed Frederick Jansoon. And of course, on Thursday, the Transfiguration of Jesus. Beautiful thought on that, too. You know, if I have time this week, we'll do another show on that as well. Quite beautiful. 87, Saint Sixtus and his companions, as well as Saint Kenjian, 1547, Blessed Nicholas Postgate, Saint Albert of Tarpari, Topau, Saint Dominic on the 8th, Saint Mary of the Cross, also on the 8th, Saint Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein, next Sunday. Okay, that's a big one. Saint Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein, 1942, died in the concentration, concentration camp, concentration camp. She was a convert from Judaism in her 20s, early 20s, became Catholic. Very sad story about that. So uh, but a great story. You know, she's in heaven. She's a great saint, uh, and one who should be called upon. So uh we asked for the saints to help us and bless us this very day. So let us go right into our readings today from Isaiah chapter fifty five verses one through three. Thus says the Lord, all you who are thirsty come to the water. You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat. Come without pain and without cost. Drink wine and milk. Why spend your money for what is not bread, your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me and you shall eat well. You shall delight in rich fare. Come to me heedfully. Listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you the everlasting covenant, the benefits assured to David. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Our psalm reading today is from Psalm 145, verses eight and nine, and then fifteen through eighteen. The hand of the Lord feeds us, he answers all our needs. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and great in kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. The hand of the Lord feeds us, he answers all our needs. The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The hand of the Lord feeds us, He answers all our needs. The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. The hand of the Lord feeds us, he answers all our needs. Our reading from Romans is chapter eight, verse thirty-five, and then they skip verse thirty-seven. We'll read that and expound on it. Uh and then thirty-seven through thirty-nine. Brothers and sisters, what will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril, or the sword? No, and all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. And our gospel reading today, it's from the Gospel of Matthew, verse 14, excuse me, chapter 14, verse 13 through 21. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord. When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked he saw the vast crowd. His heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick. When it was evening the disciples approached him and said, This is a deserted place, and it is already late. Dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves. Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away. Give them some food yourselves. But they said to him, Five loaves and two fish are all we have here. Then he said, Bring them here to me. And he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven. He said, Blessing. He said, The blessing, broke the loaves, and gave it to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up they picked up the fragments left over, twelve wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. May the words of this gospel wipe away our sins. Well, welcome, my brothers and sisters. My name is Deacon Louis Zimblett here in the Diocese of Kalmazou. We're glad you're with us here today on this 18th Sunday in ordinary time. And uh I know some of you are probably getting ready for school and things like that, but the scriptures this weekend are very much focused in on the sacraments. Baptism, believe it or not, baptism and Eucharist, especially in, you know, you hear about uh the coming of the water, we hear about this the food, all these things. And we'll go over um we'll go over the uh catechism teachings on this as well, um, which are also very good. And we'll kind of touch on that right now. Um you can pass this program on to anyone you'd like, deaconlouisemlick.com. Um, and uh we're on most of the uh podcast platforms that you can find us. So here we go on our first reading from Isaiah 55. Let me get that whole thing for you, 55, 1 through 3. The symbols of the Holy Spirit, and we have water here in 694, the catechism water. The symbolism of water signifies the Holy Spirit's action in baptism. Since after the invocation of the Holy Spirit, it becomes the efficacious sacramental sign of new birth, just as the generation of our first birth took place in water, so water of baptism truly signifies that our birth into the divine life is given to us in the Holy Spirit, as by one spirit we are all baptized, so we are all made to drink of the one spirit. All to drink of the one spirit. Thus the Spirit also personally, the living water, welling up from Christ crucified as the source and the welling up in us to eternal life. It's so good, it's so beautiful. 694, the Catechism of the Catholic Church. My brothers and sisters, if there is one thing to join the Catholic Church, this is this piece of this piece of this teaching. See, you won't find this in many other religions where they have this, other than, you know, it might have some might have some actually some uh heretical things, things that the Catholic Church does not believe in or maybe even condemns. But look at this. So beautiful. And and and you know, you have people criticize the church and criticize the Catholic Church, say this, that, and the other thing. Oh, those guys they don't study scripture, scripture, scripture, scripture. Hey, that's a lie. You're lying. When you say those things about the church, you're lying. And listen to this right now, okay? Listen to this. This little symbols of the Holy Spirit in regards to baptism, in regards to confirmation, in regards to the Holy Eucharist, all of this is the symbols of the Holy Spirit. The names and the titles and the symbols of the Holy Spirit. Here we go. 694, the catechism. Listen to this. And the church, 762, the catechism. We'll read that too a little bit. Listen to this. You don't think it is connected to scripture? How about 1 Corinthians 12, John 19, 1 John 5 and 8, John 4, chapter 4, John or John chapter 7, verse 38, Exodus chapter 17, 1 through 6, Isaiah 55, 1, which we read today, Zechariah 14, 1 Corinthians 10, Revelation 21, Revelation 22. Okay? Scripture, scripture, scripture, my brothers and sisters. And of course, you know, it's not always that way, but a lot of it is, you know, even the next one, you know, that we read from uh 762 of the catechism, the church prepared for the old covenant, the remote preparation for this gathering, people together of God begins when he calls Abraham and the promises that will become the father of a great people. Its immediate preparation begins with Israel's election to the people of God. By this election, Israel is to become the sign of the future gathering of all nations. All nations, my brothers and sisters, everyone throughout this world, to love, not to war, but to love one another. But the prophets accuse Israel of breaking the covenant and behaving like a prostitute. They announce a new and eternal covenant. Christ instituted this new covenant. And of course, that's in regards to our reading today in Isaiah, as well as Exodus 19, Genesis 12, Genesis 15, and uh Micah 4. Okay, and as well as the Ten Commandments, too. So we're halfway through. All right, you got some other ones too. Now remember also on our on our podcast, we list all of these. There's a couple more, but we're not gonna have time to go through all of them. In our psalm reading today, God creates by wisdom and love. You hear that, my brothers and sisters? God creates by wisdom and love. We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatsoever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God's free will. He wanted to make his creatures share here, share in his being, wisdom and goodness. For you are for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created. Therefore, the Psalmist exclaims, O Lord, how manifold are your works in wisdom you have made them all, and the Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made. Psalm 104, Psalm 145. The invisible world, the heavens and the earth, 342 of the catechism. I'll let you look that one up. Well, as we're gonna run out of time, I've got to get through all these. Okay, Romans 10, prayer, filial trust, my brothers and sisters, to trust in God. These are the this is the cornerstone of our faith. Uh people may call it blind faith, or they may say it's you know, this, that, or the other thing. But you know, when you make an appointment at the dentist office, you know, you go to the dentist office, maybe it's a bad example, I don't know, but you make an appointment at the dentist office and you go there that day, you figure it's your dental appointment, right? He's gonna be there. Same thing with God, my brothers and sisters. He's always there. God is always there for us. And so I give you this challenge to get on your knees and pray. Get on your knees, ask God and say, you know, God, if you if you're really there, Lord, if you're really there, God, you know, you call him Lord later. He becomes Lord of your life. He becomes, he becomes you you become peace. You become like Jesus, like the Blessed Mother, like the saints. My brothers and sisters, like the saints. So listen to this filial trust. 2739 of the Catechism. For Saint Paul, this trust is bold, founded on prayer of the Spirit and in us, on the faithful love of the Father, who has given us his son. Transformation of the praying heart is the first response to our petition. Romans 10, Romans 8. Wow, so beautiful. And then we continue on with the gospel. Isn't it interesting that we just have that one teaching on Romans? But I think that I think the greatest teaching of all is the is the is the passage that's that's missing. And I want to touch on that real quick, too. These things get edited out, and it becomes very um becomes very irritating. So it was 36 that was edited out of Romans by the church, and it'll be edited out of the of the readings, you know, at mass. Very unfortunate. But the sentence they took out is this 36, verse 36 of Romans chapter 8. As it is written, and I want you to meditate on this, and if there's anything that would make you want to become a Christian, to want to become a soldier, a soldier of peace and love for Jesus Christ. As it is written, for your sake, we are being killed all the day long. We are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered. Wow. Think about that. These are our enemies. This is evil, my brothers and sisters. These are enemies of the church, enemies of goodness, see? And these enemies are uh rampant self-will, this this socialism, this these ideologies of Marxism. They all hate the church. Don't be fooled by it, my brothers and sisters. Do not be fooled by, you know, well, they're gonna give us all this free stuff. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's never worked, never worked. Communism, socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism. You look at these people, look at what's happened in Cuba, look what's happening in China. You know, we have bishops, we have Catholic bishops who are in prison in China, you know, and Russia and some of these places. It is not good. It's not good, it's very bad. And we see this influence in this church in the church when this when a verse like this is left out. You know, they want to soften it up. But the fact of the matter is, my brothers and sisters, is the world is cruel. The world is a very cruel place, but we can battle against this evil. So check that verse out. Meditate on that. Meditate on that. So, on to our gospel reading. I think the most, before I get into the catechism teachings on it, if I get into the catechism, well, let me just tell you the catechism. It's the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. It is the Last Supper, my brothers and sisters. It is the Eucharist, it is the signs of bread and wine, only to be found in the Holy Catholic Church, because of the true priesthood, because of the true priesthood with Jesus Christ and with the high priest Melchizedek. See? We think about this. We think about these things, and that has been stripped away from most other churches, right? The priesthood, a valid priesthood, where you have a man who is dedicated, who acts persona and christe as the man Jesus Christ, to confect these sacraments, to make these sacraments truly holy, to make this truly holy bread, holy baptism, holy matrimony, holy marriage, holy orders, a holy funeral, a holy anointing, a holy baptism. I think I said that twice, which is good. Anyway, so here's the here's a you know, not funny, funny, not funny part, but it is so beautiful, you know, the Eucharistic assembly, because the Eucharist is celebrated amidst the assembly of the faithful, the expression of the church. Now let me go through this. What is the sacrament called? The Lord's Supper. And all through this, and you can look this up, the Catechism is Catholic Church, 1329, 1 Corinthians, Revelation 19, Matthew 14, Matthew 15, Mark 8, Matthew 26, 1 Corinthians 11, Luke 24, Acts 2, Acts 20, 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Corinthians 11. My brothers and sisters, the Eucharist is real. Holy communion is real. And if your pastor is telling you, oh, you know, it's just fake bread, it's just pretend, and those Catholics are that's a bunch of garbage, they're heretics, my brothers and sisters. There's absolute heresy, it's absolute blasphemy to say that and to read that gospel and think, oh, this is meaningless. It's a miracle, it's miraculous. Now, there have been people even within the church who said, oh, you know, that they were hiding the bread under their shirts. That's a lie, too. People who are actually Catholic say that. It's like you don't know what you're talking about. You know, you realize you know you're condemning yourself by these uh heretical lies. You know, don't do that. All right. On a lighter note, let's let's let's a little bit of hilarity here, a little bit of a laugh here, right? So here we see this, right? Look at this. This is a deserted place and it's already late. You know, they're going to Jesus and saying, you know, just get these people out of here. You know, I want to go home, right? When it was evening, the disciples approached him and said, This is a deserted place and it's already late. Dismiss the crowd so we can go to the villages. What are you telling me what to do, Jesus? Jesus, I was Jesus. I was just saying, you're telling me what to do? What are you doing? And don't we do this? Don't we do this with our clerics, with our pastors, with our deacons, with our religious, with the Pope, with our with our bishops and cardinals, thinking that we know what's best. We don't. We have a good idea or two, okay, but we do not have the authority necessarily to express it. And this is kind of this attitude that we have, right? Well, I'm just gonna tell him what should be done. Dismiss Jesus, I think you should do this. But you know what God says? You know what Jesus says? Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away. Give them some food yourselves. But they said to him, we only have five loaves. Jesus makes a miracle, right? The miracle happens, and then there's even food left over. Seven, twelve wicker baskets full. Five thousand men, not counting women and children. So it's probably fifteen or twenty thousand people at this gathering. Twenty thousand people all fed from five loaves of bread and two fish. It's a miracle, my brothers and sisters. It's miraculous. And if you want to say, oh, it's a bunch of hogwash, and I don't want to believe that garbage, say, hey, okay. You know, you don't want to believe in miracles? I'm a miracle. I know I'm a miracle because I should have been dead 30 years ago. And I'm not. I'm alive. And I know it's because of God. I know it's because of Christ. I know God has saved me. Not just, not just hopefully at the end, but it saved me in this lifetime as well. And of course, that's, you know, there's thousands of stories like that. Thousands of stories like that. But listen, so we look at this thing where we're, you know, telling other people what to do and what the church wants us to do. And in a certain way, my brothers and sisters, I think uh today we are called uh to help those who don't have anything, you know, to uh write a check to the gospel mission. You know, they do some amazing work to write a check to uh Catholic charities, Kalamazoo, and you know, keep the money local. And you can put on your check, you know, please keep the money local. We want to keep the money local. And the same thing with the gospel mission downtown. Keep the money local, or have it go for this, or have it go for food, or have it go for housing. Hmm. But to support these organizations that really help people, that do some really amazing things, that feed the people, you know, that when Christ calls us, and Christ may be calling you this day, and in a certain way, saying to you, you know, I need you to do this, or I need you to join the church, or I need you to apologize to your brother or your sister or your mom or your dad or aunt or uncle. I need you to say you're sorry. I need you to become a soldier for Jesus Christ. A soldier of peace and love, not of death, not of death. We battle against evil. We got we do, we yes, we do, we do do that. We battle against evil. But people need help, my brothers and sisters. People need help, genuinely need help, even if it's just a prayer. You know, pray for yourself, pray for your family, pray for your own conversion. And of course, this Thursday is the transfiguration of the Lord. Used to be a holy day of obligation way back in the day, but unfortunately, you know, once again, people edited those things out. Let me finish with theology of the body, this ethical and anthropological content of the commandment. You shall not commit adultery. Theology of the body, you examine the meaning of adultery, which is a breach in the unity of the husband and wife, even if only by an interior act, adultery in the heart. He cited the case of David and Bethsheba. So, my brothers and sisters, you know, let us um let us pray. Let us pray. And if that's happened in your house, you know, there's there has to be a healing that takes place, right? And hopefully you'll be able to survive that. Your marriage can survive that and make it through. May Almighty God bless you all. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. God bless you all. We love you.