02 Apr 26 – True Meaning of the Priesthood

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Welcome to the truth and justice show my good friend father Charles Murr who I pray every single day for

Father Murr. Welcome to the show my friend

You do well to pray for me every day. So that so that's what's been keeping me a lot

I don't well a lot of people pray for you father. You're nearly 50 years of priests next year will be 50 years of

Service I blows me away

And you know today I haven't even told you this but I because yesterday we were gonna have you today's a better day

We I want to talk about the true meaning of the well. I've got it. I've got a confession to make

Yeah, I got a confession because I know some of the viewers turned up. I turned in yesterday to see us

Yeah, I always exhausted yesterday

I was just exhausted and I said and I wrote I wrote to to Richard who is who is your right hand man

If Terry wants me and I'll be on but I won't be any fun. Yeah, that's right. I saw that I was wiped out

So I'm very glad you agreed to do it today on Holy Thursday

Yeah, and you know why father because it's the institution of the Holy Eucharist is the institution of the priesthood

So we'll get into that and and also I want to bring to our attention later in the show if we have time

of a young boy

Who's only 10 years old who's receiving the

Medal of honor

Because he shielded his fellow students at that Catholic Church denunciation Catholic Church in Minnesota last year to protect

His brother he put his body around him and took a couple bullets and he recovered and now

I find out a little bit more about his parents about him and you know father

To me I'm an old man. I'm almost 70 years old. Are you are you trying to say Terry?

Are you trying to say that there are still good people exactly where I'm going and I want you to try and say

You nailed it. Sometimes I doubt it. Yeah, I'm glad to hear an exception. I mean

We hear about saints and all that to do the just different great things but this young boy

When you hear about him later in the show, you're gonna say wow

It's good to know that there's a young young man like that growing up. It wouldn't surprise me if that young man becomes a Catholic priest

I really mean that because of his

style of self-sacrificing for his fellow man and

Yeah, so we'll get into that but before we get into of the day of

How about how about pushing how about pushing to make him a bishop? Oh, yeah

Yeah, we could you we could use some bishops like that. Yes, we can it's a matter of fact

We're just having this conversation. I just got off the phone with Bishop Strickland my favorite bishop

Great man, great man and he's agreed to come to St. Louis, Missouri with us to

It witnessed the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Both of us are going to be speaking out a banquet for life site news

and then we're going to

Journey in a bus over to Peoria after the beatification to go see the the museum of Fulton Sheen

And I'm only having a hundred people go because it's two buses and I'll be putting that up next week after Easter

Say if people want to join us for that trip because

It's going to be not only a lot of fun, but it'll it'll be like

Let me back in on December. I'll tell you the date. It was the realization the realization of a

Yeah, of a long time dream

It was December 13, 1979 at his funeral that I was interviewed on ABC news for the nation

And they asked you know when they found that I was coming from Los Angeles

They said we got to talk to you. Why would a young man fly all the way from LA to New York for a bishops funeral

So I let him know, but I also mentioned I said this man is a saint

And the Catholic Church eventually will

Canonize him

Because of his life and people need to know more about this man

Even though he's dead now all of his material needs to get back on radio and television

And here it is 40 some years later

You know, you're right. He never really died. No

No, not really not really true. That is very true

And so the bottom line is I'll tell our folks more about this trip to Peoria

It's the 24th of September is the beatification date at two in the afternoon

All right, well, let's get to the gospel if we could it's the holy week gospel Luke chapter 4

Verse 16 to 21

At if father you could read it and give us a little comment on it that'd be grand

Terry I had it here just a minute ago. Of course you did of course you did

Where did it go if you can't find it? I had a I had a kind of a crazy friend from California

Well, that's me. We used to say you used to say where did I do with that?

What he's that right? Well, where did I do with that? That's an interesting comment

Well, father, I can I can read it and you can

I'm afraid you're gonna have you're gonna have I had it right here, but yeah, life is full of adjustments

What Jesus came to Nazareth where he had grown up and went according to his custom

Into the synagogue on the Sabbath day

He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah

He enrolled a scroll and found the passage where it was written

The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind

And to the oppress to go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord

Rolling up the scroll he handed it back to the attendant and sat down

And his eyes of all the synagogue looked intently at him

He said to them

Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing

The gospel of the Lord

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. Yep. Wow

Go ahead father. Well, you know, this is this is one of the uh one of the three

proofs

That Christ is who he says he is yeah, and that was and then to me it's the biggest proof. It's a fantastic proof

That

Everything that was written in the Old Testament

Points to him. Amen points to Jesus Christ points to the one to the Messiah who is to come and Jesus himself

Fulfilled all of those prophecies in his own life. Therefore

He just read this passage of Isaiah

To those who were in the synagogue and he said and he says at the end

This is just come true you just got done hearing it what you just heard

Has been fulfilled look at you're looking at me

Your eyes are on me. That's where they should be yeah, I fulfilled this

He doesn't say that and as blatantly proud a proudly as I just said it. He says it with humility

But the point is it was well-made said you just heard the prophecy come true

I'm the prophecy come true now this

and

Did I show you those two books Terry? No, what two books? I'll show you my another. I just got from a dear friend of mine in New York

Two volumes remember I was telling you that there was a Jesuit who wrote

Who wrote a book about all of the prophecies of the Old Testament? I do remember that point to Christ. Yes

I finally found the book. It's a two-volume work

I don't think you can find it anywhere in the world. It's hard to find and a friend of mine found it and

and he gave it to me

It's a precious gift

But these are all the prophecies of the Old Testament that

That showed Jesus Christ as the Messiah and how they are fulfilled in him. It's fantastic

That's and and this is what Fulton Jashin

You're you're you and I are all gung ho on Fulton Jashin

I think he's I think he's more than a saint he could he he could be he could be proclaimed a doctor of the church and I'm serious

I'm with you

What his point was his point was that

This proves that Christ is who Christ said he was and this is also unique

To Jesus Christ unique to him um nobody else in the world

Buddha

That's right. We'll have no one no one no one. We know the founder of any religion. What was her name?

The Smith lady from Boston

The Christian scientists. I mean all of these religions none of their founders or founders is

fulfilled

Centuries of prophecies before they were born right

None of them no so this this is this what we just got done

What you just read in the gospel yeah is a proof of that very of that very

prophetic fact which distinguishes our religion from every other religion every in existence

No one prophesied about the coming of of Muhammad. It's right. Nobody prophesied about the coming of of Buddha

Of this of that but there were prophets who for centuries prophesied about the arrival and of the Messiah

This is fantastic

You got it. That's all from life is worth living his audio series. That's on our website. It's amazing

Before we break I want to you know get Bishop Sheen on the other side

People have been asking me about the spiritual warfare conference that took place 10 days ago

The recordings are up on our website for you to watch

The we're in the process of editing them down so that people can actually you know

Not have to hear about announcements that are not pertinent to them. So we're re we're doing that now

But go to vmpr.org

You can go to our website to watch those spiritual warfare talks by Father Chad Ripperger and all the others

Also, I just want to

Encourage people this Easter treaty when we come back we're in a sheen, but then we're going to get into the priesthood

I want to encourage you for an Easter gift to give Bishop Sheen's priest retreat that we have on our website

You have my permission to make as many copies as you want

Give them to 10 priests give them to all of them

We need to help our priests and I think Bishop Sheen's priest retreat will do that

But a vmpr.org

And you can get the

Called and chosen priest retreat in Ireland

Stay with us. We'll be back after a very quick break

You

Welcome back to the truth and justice show father Charles murr.com is where you can get his books

Father, I'd like to bring the smartest guy into the room Archbishop

Full Sheena head

The word hope h-o-p-e

Is something that everyone needs and our hope is in Jesus Christ

But we live in a world where a lot of people don't have hope

So I wanted to get what Bishop Sheen's has to say

Father John Harden's book called Treasure of Catholic

Wisdom has all the sayings. Yeah, it's an excellent book. I had a years ago

So did I have a three excellent excellent and here's what Bishop Sheen has to say

It's not so much what happens in life that matters

It is rather how we react to it

You can always tell the character of a person

By the size of the things that really make him mad

Because modern man lives in a world which has reference to nothing

But

Itself

It follows that when depression war death enters into this two-dimensional world

He trembles into the most hopeless despair

I

Bring this up

Father Merb because you have a background in counseling if

You know that you had when you before you became a priest. I think it was before you become a priest

But I think hope is actually actually I got my degree in psychology after I did not realize that father

Thanks, so I was a pastor in New York, right?

Men while you I did not know that and was it Paul Vitz who taught you a lot of your

Yeah, fantastic man one of my fantastic

Yeah, so isn't it true that we need hope if without hope we just don't operate well. Is that a fair statement?

Yeah, when you were reading that you know the craziest thing came into my mind something that I hadn't thought about since

I think I was 12 years old. Oh my god. There was there was a there was a cartoon figure that we would watch on Saturday mornings

I can't remember it. It was a dog

It was a dog and and and this dog

Moved and groaned and whined and cried about everything all I remember is going

Oh dear. Oh

No, oh my oh

And you know there are a lot of people like that of course a lot of people like that the reason they created the dog character

moping and groaning and and and depressed was because he was following a lot of people

There were people who he personified and and this is exactly right

I know people

As a matter of fact, I think I'm one of them. I think I'm one of them myself, but but I know others who have gone through

traumatic things in life. Yeah

and

They they got through they got through this the those those crisis is

Because they had the right attitudes the right attitudes they knew that they knew that all of this is passing

All of this is first of all is in the plan of God. Yeah

It's what do we do with it? She made a great observation that that I've never forgotten because it's so so so true

He said every time I pass a hospital. Oh, yeah

I think to myself

What wasted pain

The tremendous amount of wasted pain in other words pain that's not offered up as a prayer man

Pain they could be doing so so much more, you know, we say remember we used to sacrifice yes do a sacrifice sacrifice

Well that word is going out of our

Vocabulary and most unfortunately not out of mind yours not of the majority of the majority of comfortable Catholics

No, there is no sacrifice nobody is willing to sacrifice and our mass doesn't represent the sacrifice either

It represents a meal in a hut in any however

The idea of sacrifice is real to prayer is one of the one of the things that that every single morning

I wake up make the sign of the cross to begin the day and go I walk of ten ten

Paces

To a painting that I have on the of the sacred heart of Jesus and make the morning offering of course

That's how I begin my day and I try not to do any

anything now one thing

I wouldn't walk toward that image of Christ

The sacred heart before starting the day. I want the day to start that way. I don't want to waste anything

And one of the things is I offer you all my prayers works joys and sufferings

Yeah, and sufferings of this day

Well

You know, please and anybody who who understands what depression is let me put it this way

Anyone who has a reason to be depressed. There are a lot of people are depressed without a reason

I remember

I shouldn't tell you this but I'm going to tell you this

I remember often enough sitting in the confessional yeah

And people would come in to and they would go through this list of

of

Of terrible problems they have and just this and the other thing and I'm thinking to myself

Oh, brother, you want to know problems you should hear my

But but it's you know, it's amazing how people can become bogged down

With with things that aren't really real and other people can go through dramatically real things

And out on top. Yeah, it's the attitude that you have

It's knowing that God is in charge of everything. Yeah

He just is go along for the ride go along for the ride

Father, I always say an attitude a gratitude is welcome just about everywhere

You got it and you got it and that is the fact. All right. Let's shift gears before we get into this young man

Must we okay

No, no, no, go ahead at the beginning of the show. I was just acknowledging

that

Your priesthood is almost 50 years old now

That's a very long time and by looking at you wouldn't imagine

No, you look like you're just maybe five years into your prison god bless you

And I need to go to confession

No

But father the point though is

the

Fulton sheen and I really mean this

I know the priest retreats that Bishop sheen gave

After his retirement he went all over the country in the world giving priest retreats

Because he said this

That and and I got this right into book but a month senior

um his

Benson

Hilt yeah, uh hit months in your Hillary franco. Excuse me franco. You met him

So he said that he felt Bishop sheen felt like there was a need

because of the he's he said

Uh

A crisis in the priesthood. He said the biggest problem. This was like in the early 70s

He said the seminaries aren't teaching the faith to the future priests and this has got to stop and he's

Going on and on talking about these problems. So he thought well

I'm going to do my best to take the existing priests

And give them good solid formation about the daily holy hour about the Eucharist about our lady and reverence

And that's what he did. So I want to ask you

As a priest of almost 50 years

How important

It is for you to really understand that the priesthood is not like being a policeman

Or a fireman that it is uh, you know, basically

Living out the life of Christ in persona Christy that that this priesthood if you really understand it

uh is

Self-giving self-sacrificing because I think a lot of young men and I witnessed it

They think the priesthood is all about

Imager whatever they just yeah, I'm the everybody looks up to me now

After the crisis that went down

But my question to you is can you tell us the true meaning of what a priest is supposed to be and not what many times we see in our church today

Wow, yeah, it's a big question. That's a heavy question. How much time do you give me two minutes? The rest of the show

Give us what we need for a holy priesthood. Let me say let me say this about that. Let me say this about that as Richard Nixon used to say

Uh

You're right you're right that there are many young priests and I've met them in so of you who uh

I just know when I meet them that they're going to have one heck of a time a hard time remaining faithful to their vocation. Yeah, I know that

And when when I hear

So-and-so left the priesthood or that

I'm not shocked it just it doesn't surprise me because

They didn't seem to have had it to begin with

When it for the wrong reasons now we can say this about anybody. I know people who are married for the wrong reasons

And I know people who are single for the wrong reasons

Yeah

And let me put it this way too. I know people who are in the homosexual lifestyle for the wrong reasons. Yeah

So a lot of us do things for the wrong reasons right that's why if for the priesthood

Most priests have are given uh

My gosh

College four years and five years after college

Of training

seminary training classes courses

direction

So it's nine years after high school to prepare

To prepare now you don't know anybody who's prepared for marriage for nine years. No, no, no

No, so we have we have

tremendous opportunities

There's no reason for any for any young man to say no, I can't go out with the priesthood

There isn't any reason if he's taken advantage of all that time and education and and training

There's no there's no educate. There's no reason

Here's the reason they leave and we'll get right back to Fulton J. Sheen and love this

And today is the perfect day for it

They stop believing in the Eucharist. Yes

It's very it's it's really that simple. They stop believing in the Eucharist and here's the here's the tragedy Terry. Yeah

Everything is set up today for them to do just that

To lose their faith in the Eucharist. That's that beginning with beginning with and I'm going to get in trouble for saying this

But I'm going to say it anyway trouble is my middle name. Yeah, you saw you saw the tea you thought the tea stood for a Theodore. No, it stands for trouble

The

The point is this

The new mass

Is not bad in itself. It's not so bad in itself in and of itself

As a matter of fact, there are things that are that are good about it. Very good

You know what I like particularly about the the the new mass the the readings the possibility of more readings

It has its pros and his cons but that for example however

It has too much leeway

Too much leeway and there are so many things that that have been done to it that

Actually destroy the idea of Christ's real presence in the Eucharist

It's it's not special anymore. Right anybody anybody anybody can give out communion

I know people who are giving out communion in in the parish who who missed mass for five Sundays didn't think anything about of it

Who

Practice birth control think nothing of it artificial birth control who

This ugly other their their lives are really rather scandalous

They think nothing of it to and then stand up to to distribute only communion. Yeah

Well, if anybody can do that if anybody can do that

You get the idea without anyone saying it. Well, what is that exactly? What's so special about what they're doing?

Yeah, I I agree 100% that I don't think I'll take two things lay people should be giving out holy to me

Especially women you're giving them a false hope for something they can't reach

But I want to mention something a teaser a bishop sheen would not ordain one third of his class up in upstate in New York

And I'll tell you why then we come back

Welcome back to the truth and justice show. I'm talking to father Charles Murr

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And I wanted to mention for full machine

Answer the question about the priesthood that I think is pertinent to our conversation right now father and it was a question about

The comments about the clerical state of the church and since he said he's I said that

The church would prosper by being lifted up instead of going down

And when he met there and he talks about it said

We kind of lift people up to Christ not to go down to where they're at

He noted that in his own experience priests who refused to wear their casics

Or off-old were often troubled priests who are actually

Indicating signs of deeper problems

He himself as the bishop of New York

Would not ordain one third of the class now that doesn't happen too often father Murr where the bishop says no

You're not qualified you're you're you're got any what he said there was that it's going to affect the church poorly

And that we're ordaining men that should have never been ordained

And he was spot on he was spot on now true once he told

Through the Montseigneur of an important archbishop

He doesn't give the name who complained that some men in his seminary

Were causing a great scan a deal of scandal and trouble

On holy Thursday, which is today for us archbishop Sheen was in that seminary for services and not one single

Seminarian was in a classic archbishop Sheen inquired about it

Asking this same archbishop why he did not tell his seminarians to dress properly

No answer was given in such incidents archbishop Sheen saw the great need for leadership and good example

Now he talks about the serious effects of the loss of faith that were appearing in the early 70s

As an example he said there was a young priest whom he heard boast about having many penitents because he didn't believe in hell

What yep, where have I heard that before exactly father

Archbishop told me in 74 that it was difficult in the United States to find two priests in agreement on moral issues

He also expressed concern about priests who were

Pressing to name their own bishop observing their young priests were convinced that all power is from below

Father that you you lived through that. Am I right?

Mm-hmm survived it. Yeah, yes, but you were you were living in that

Even in Rome when you were in in the seminary you had told me stories

That people had lost their supernatural faith

I

Was trying to get in the last segment to the point to Bishop Sheen's point. Yes

Go ahead of one man leave the priesthood. Okay, and I I said it

But I didn't qualify it. I didn't get into it

uh

It has to do with the Eucharist. Yes, you know, it has to do with the mass and what I was trying to get to wasn't so much the

The new mass versus the old mass. However, I only say the old mass. I've given up on the new one

Because I see the tremendous lack of respect and tremendous lack of

of

Of knowledge of of of of of of respect of of

of

Of a beauty for the blessed sacrament. It's just it's just I don't see it in the new mass. I don't see it

It's become commonplace at anybody as I said anybody can give out communion anybody can do this anybody

Doesn't matter whether they're in or out of mortal sin

And some of them I told you are living publicly scandalous lives. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter

That makes the Eucharist unimportant. It cheapens it all the time. This is what's happened also

Sheen brings out

He said he said there have been many

psychological

historical

Statistical

Studies on why men leave the priesthood. He said he said however

It's always seems strange to me that that nobody's really done a biblical

investigation of why men leave the priesthood right and he did why he did one such

Biblical trees is on why men leave the priesthood and it was all about

Judas Iskariot and it was about the

bread of life

I'll in just resuming quickly. Yeah, he said he said the first time that the Eucharist

is mentioned

A precursor a preparation for the Eucharist to the minds of his apostles

Was in chapter six of St. John I am the bread of life come down from heaven who eats my body drinks my blood

Lives in me and I live in him

Anyone who doesn't eat my body and drink my blood cannot live in me and I do not live in him

I am the bread of life, but he repeats it. He repeats it. It's it is

You can't get away from it. I don't understand. I've never understood Terry

If you can explain this to me how the Protestants how Protestants can be chapter six of St. John and say and and not say to themselves

What happened to us?

Where do we go wrong? Well, that's where you went wrong in chapter six of course the first time that he mentions

This and goes into the discourse of the the living bread the bread of life in chapter six

Which is beautiful and I recommend all of our listeners to read that especially today

Amen. It's perfect today. When he finishes all of that that whole discourse

Uh

Many of his disciples left him

Mm-hmm

He turns to the 12 and says you want to go to

You can still catch up with them

And St. Peter says

What does he say Lord? Where would we go? Yeah, the words we go you're the only one who has words of eternal life

And we have come to believe that you are the son of God right now

Our Lord answers that and he says

Wasn't it I who chose the 12 view?

Yet one of you

Is a traitor

One of you is about to betray me. Yeah, and it says in John's gospel and he of course was talking about Judas

Is scary at the one who would betray him now. What's important about that and sheen underlines this beautifully. Yeah

The first time we're talking about the discourse on the bread of life the preparation for the Eucharist

Judas is mentioned

His betrayal of Christ is mentioned. It is mentioned in conjunction with the the first time the Eucharist is mentioned

Yeah

When does he actually leave when does he actually leave to begin the the formal betrayal of Jesus Christ at the last supper during the institution of the bread of life

During the institution of the Eucharist now is it when the priests leave the priesthood

Exactly when they lose their faith in the in the Eucharist now

My point with when we were talking before about the mass the old mass versus the new mass

Uh, you know, I knew priests who also celebrated the old mass and who left the priesthood. So this is not a

Iron clad and iron clad thing. However, however

Any I have never known a priest who had real faith in the Eucharist who left the priesthood

Never never not one and I know many of them not one

Well, this is the whole point of the whole thing

Those priests who have faith in our in our word

Actually, let me go one step further a little bit deeper those who have a relationship with Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist

Don't leave the priesthood

They can go through any sorts of

midlife crises of this of that all of the temptations that the world provides. They don't leave

They don't leave because

Lord where would we go?

Lord where would we go, right? You have you are the only one who has the words of eternal life

This is the whole

The main reason for leaving the priesthood

Because men priests have stopped believing in the real presence and I'm telling you they've stopped believing in the real presence

greatly do to the way the Holy Eucharist is being treated of course that makes sense actions have consequences

Are you aware that bishops sheen would not speak at a church unless the blessed sacrament was in the church present?

Yes, why would he do that? Can you tell me what I think for the very reasons you brought up? Well, sure sure where excuse me

Where do you think he got his energy from?

What do you think he drew he drew his spiritual energy the Holy Eucharist from a

Cloud above or from the from the from the Kupula and the church that he was in or what from the blessed sacrament

From the blessed sacrament and he was nobody was more aware of that than he was

Nobody and therefore he would not preach unless the blessed sacrament were present

Why what what he was saying is why should I give you half why should I give you half of the performance?

Why would you want half? Yeah

This is why the beatification of Fulton Sheen in my opinion is important for holy mother the church to have a model

Like sheen like like I know what I'm going to be doing this afternoon

All spare every afternoon you can count on it. I saw my count two o'clock

I'm before the blessed sacrament till three o'clock when I pick up my grandson at school

I used to do it in the morning

But I'm doing other duties and I said well, it has to be worked out

So you need to be flexible, but I can guarantee you if I didn't make that holy hour

There's no way I would be able to do the things that I do

For the church and for my family. It's it's where I get my energy and who gave it to me. It was Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Father, Father Murr when we come back. I'd like to shift gears again with you

To talk about a brave boy who shielded his friend during this

Annunciation school shooting. He gets an award

But I just look at this young boy. He's now 11. He did it when he was 10 years old

And then we find out from his parents from his teachers the kind of person this young man is I'm saying to myself

Wow, I wish I you know had if I'm not sure what I would do in those circumstances and this young man

Did the heroic virtue of protecting his fellow

students

From gunshot wounds and he took it for them and survived it and when we come back

We'll talk about this young man and I want to make the connection

That this young man really on this holy Thursday

And has really shown us an example of what our Lord and Savior did for us

dying on the cross for our salvation

That this young boy

mimicked our Lord when he says no greater love than to lay down your life for your fellow man

10 years old you're gonna hear about that when we come back

I'm gonna say it right now we're too blessed to be stressed

We're too anointed to be disappointed and if hope was money we'd be billionaires. Stay with us from me. We'll be back after a quick break

Welcome back to the Truth and Justice Show with Father Charles Murr Terry Barber

This is given me great hope. I like to end the show on a positive note victor

Greenwald a brave young boy who shielded his fellow students from gunfire

During this Annunciation Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis

Last fall he just was honored last week for his heroism and his courage and Father Murr

What I really was blown away by is

He's only in fifth grade. Okay. I don't know when I was in fifth grade. I'm not sure

I really would have done something like that. I probably would have ran

I'm being honest with you father

This is incredible

You know when you hear these shoots ring out shot as a shots ringing out

um most people would panic right

But he said this young boy that that he saved his life said my friend was laying on top of me making sure I was safe

And he got hit

two children 10 years old and an eight-year-old were killed in the attack

And you know

This is incredible that this former Medal of Honor recipient Kyle Carpenter who presented the award to victor

He said in a moment of sudden life threatening danger

victor greenwald demonstrated extraordinary courage beyond his years. I agree

Without hesitation

He acted to shield a fellow student from harm

placing himself between the danger and of another

His instinct to protect even his personal risk

Reflects a deep character and selflessness that embodies the very value of the Medal of this honor

and

The Minneapolis state trooper this is pretty interesting who came on scene

And he arrived on the scene that day. He was first to find victor wounded

As I was running up. I see victor his first words out of his mouth were

Thank you sir for your service

This isn't the real human being isn't this kid? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm like really

Yeah, and as the teacher helped him move and that's when I saw the wounds on the back of his head and back

If it's so we were getting the bandages out and placing the amount in the back of his head

And it isn't this fire this dire moment the officer recalled with the 10-year-old boy asked

You know him and said he turns to me and this little 10-year-old boy says

Am I going to live

I mean father he knew us the seriousness of what he did now

But but am I going to live was a secondary question. Yeah secondary. He asked the cop

No his father

Zach added that

My son is always really shines when someone is in need of help. He's always been that way

So you see the way the tree bends is the way it falls

Last thing I'll say and then I want to get your comment the annunciation Catholic school principal

That victor is just one of those most authentic children that she's ever encountered

As a parent you try to raise your kids to do good things

Any greenwald reflected and I'm I'm sad that he had I'm sad that he had that opportunity

But so proud of him

I hate that my kids know so

Know such a awful thing at an early age and it chart it changed him

So it I'm it's hope I'm hopeful to see the good in it

But it's really hard

So the mom said I hate this I can't see much good out of it

But you know you talked about that purification

builds character in a person

I'm going to predict right now

That as the years go by

This is the kind of person who in my opinion young man

Who I would love to see as a Catholic priest and as you said as a bishop because

He's got what it takes your thoughts

Yeah, oh, I mean there's no question

You're not alone in in in hoping that that comes true. I want to see I would I would love to see it. I would love to see it. You know

Uh, in a

To be quite frank and quite honest. Yeah

um

I think most of us would like to think we would act similarly. Yeah

We'd like to think that about ourselves. Oh, yeah, if I were in that situation

You know, I do this. So I would do that especially if especially when we're if we're talking about my brother. Yeah

Somebody somebody that I then I know and deeply love

I used to think that about myself

Until one day

Until one day

We were at someone's farm

In Mexico and you know, do you know what carnitas are? You know what? Yes, of course. I've eaten them

All right delicious delicious. Well in Mexico

um

The farms a lot of the farms don't have electricity

But they have a way of keeping meat fresh

And that is by not killing the animal by keeping the animal alive. Yeah, that's how you get the out of fresh meat

well

At a at a fiesta together and I mean there must have been there must have been 50 people there for lunch

the pig

That was going to be

Killed in butcher. Yeah

was still alive

And so the the the the man who's uh who's house whose farm was went with a uh

I guess what a nice pick something like a nice pick. Okay, and and just naturally. Yeah

Selected the the pig to be to we say in Spanish to be sacrificed

Isn't that something they say to sacrifice an animal to kill an animal for butcher. What's right

Anyway, he's he uh

Stuck this knife into the into the to the pigs art. Yeah, right

Which was the quickest way to to kill an animal

The pig reacted

In a moment. This was like a crazy moment. I'm seeing it from a distance of maybe

Maybe 50 feet. Yeah away

Is in one of the stalls one of the pens. Yeah, the pig reacted by

Running out of the pen and running down this this corridor. Wow. Well, you couldn't couldn't get out of it

Because they were pig pens on on either side this straight corridor toward me. Oh my gosh

Squealing squealing for you know just this horrible death curdling at coming right toward me

Do you know what I did you ran?

No, I got I got a I got a guy I can still remember I remember in vividly would it be embarrassed if I gave his name

I'm a guy who's like six four

Big a big Mexican guy a good friend and I shielded myself with him

Well, you did it and right and right when right when I thought the pig was going to I thought the pig was going to

To bite and kill us. I mean, seriously

It dropped dead about two feet in front of us. Oh my god

Everybody knew that was going to happen. I didn't know that was going to happen

But all of a sudden

It that really threw me in crisis. I bet all myself. Yeah

Big big brain Charles

And I was humiliated. Yeah, I was really embarrassed. Yeah, this friend said he said, don't you worry. I'll never tell anybody

Tell me everybody

It when push comes to shove away in those situations

It's it's not so cut and so dry the way you would act you like to think you would

But but that this young man did so yeah, they actually reacted

Heroically. Yeah, it's amazing because it's this is this is more than this is more than learn to behave

You're full. Oh, yes, in in his nature. Yes, it's amazing

So yes, would I love to see him as a bishop? I wouldn't love to see him as a bishop. I'd love to see him as a cardinal

I'd like to see him as this second American Pope

So funny father you may you nailed it what you just said because yes, I've heard a pig

I'm I've shot a pig in my own yard at one time

You know to butcher it and I know the noise they make it's it's like a horrible now. Yes, I will say this

That it's like the cake and they can't wait to get to you to kill you for trying to kill them. Yeah, I will say gunshot

Gunshots are very loud and usually

When I hear gunshots if it's close by I'm taking cover. Okay, just a natural. What was that I'm coming down and it's a natural

So for him to you know to do what he did you're right. This is part of his

a nature to to protect

to

He was like his parents said he was very sacrificial and anybody had a need

He always would go out and help the neighbor and it kind of reminds me of what Bishop Sheen said in life is worth living

Who's my neighbor the one who's in need?

So father we're at the end of the show. I tell us about your books again. I always like to give a plug for your books, please

Well, yes, my books can be found on my website charlesmer.com real simple charlesmer one word charlesmer.com

and

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Yeah, there it is and it was done. Oh, go ahead. No, I'm gonna say an addition and we got it with night

You have to yeah, yeah, this is this is a very this is a

Autobiographical. Yeah, it takes into account. It takes into account my life until about 1992

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I want people also know that they can make a straight donation

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Is that all that's all why because I know folks father mer

Uh, is a man who's in love with Jesus Christ and his church and that he's trying to help

Especially priests who have been canceled and we know so many of them that have been canceled and you know how many do you know how many

Canceled priests that are in the United States alone. I saw two thousand three hundred and some or something like that

Thousand five hundred. Oh, yeah, I'm a little bit. Oh, blessing. Yes. My engineer says I won't forget to ask for blessing

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And don't forget our lady of Fatima says it

Souls are going to hell because no one's there to pray and make sacrifices

Please, please offer everything like Father said at the beginning to the sacred heart of Jesus

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