[00:00] 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,240 In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:16,240 Our Lord reminds us in this holy season of Lent of the importance of observing the commandments

[00:16] of God and being faithful to these commandments. 3 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:19,760 And these commandments are given to us by God so that we may share more fully in His holiness, that we share God's holiness, and that we don't allow sin to control us, that our bodies, our minds, our hearts are called to share in the glory of God and to share in God's eternal glory. 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,559 And sin diminishes us, and sin leads us away from our true destination, our true destination, and keeps us, above all, from loving and following God through the obedience to His commandments. 5 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:30,360 And it's been happening, of course; we see in our lifetime how more and more God's commandments are rejected, God's commandments are mocked, and sin is being glorified. 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:37,160 Sin is glorified

[00:37] to the point where young people don't know that, you know, relationships outside of marriage are a sin and could lead to eternal damnation. 7 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,580 It's become more and more depraved in our society in that sin is being accepted as a norm and not being challenged, and if you try to tell someone that that's a mortal sin, they look at you as if you're crazy or that you're offending them. 8 00:00:39,580 --> 00:00:48,080

[00:54] Same-sex relations, contraception, abortion, relations outside of marriage, living together before marriage—it's being glorified and seen as normal, and it's not. 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:54,799 It's a sin which could lead to eternal separation from God. 10 00:00:54,799 --> 00:00:56,799 And so our Lord is reminding us today that we are called to obey the commandments and we have to lead others to understand the commandments of God. 11 00:00:56,799 --> 00:01:04,339 We can't be ashamed or afraid to renew society in understanding God's commandments. 12 00:01:04,339 --> 00:01:11,800 Even just missing Mass on Sunday, there are Catholics that have no problem of going to Mass just once or twice a

[01:11] year, and they think by doing that that they're fulfilling their obligation, and it's just a sense of a loss of sin and that we offend God, but also that we can lose eternal happiness, lose God for all eternity, and that people have no fear of hell. 13 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,199 People have no fear of going to hell. 14 00:01:17,199 --> 00:01:21,760 They don't care, and someone told me once who was a mistress to a married man, and she

[01:30] said to me, "Father, I know I'm going to hell, but I don't care." How can one think that their sin is more important than eternal happiness with God in this passing world? 15 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:30,160 And so our Lord is just reminding us how important it is to observe the commandments and to teach others to do so. 16 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:38,120 And even perhaps we lose a sense of sin thinking, oh, that's just a small sin

[01:51] or that's a venial sin, and it's just a reminder to us that even our venial sins, Jesus had to suffer and die for them. 17 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,360 He even had to suffer and die for our venial sins so that they could be forgiven. 18 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:51,279 So this Lenten season is just a time for us to reflect, and I want to be faithful and observe God's commandments. 19 00:01:51,279 --> 00:01:56,279 I want to be faithful in following Jesus Christ. 20 00:01:56,279 --> 00:02:02,720 No matter what the world

[02:07] says, I want to be faithful to Jesus who died for my sins, who

[02:22] died so that

[02:40] I could share in that eternal glory to be with God forever in heaven. 21 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:07,040 May Mary, our mother, the refuge of sinners, help us to

[02:57] turn back to her Son whenever we fall without fear, but with confidence in the mercy that God has waiting for us so that we can be renewed and restored in following

[03:13] Christ with ever greater faith fidelity. 22 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,600 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 23 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:22,479 Amen. 24 00:02:22,479 --> 00:02:26,720 Lent. 25 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:32,119 Lent. 26 00:02:32,119 --> 00:02:40,660 Lent. 27

[03:29] 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:46,660 Lent. 28 00:02:46,660 --> 00:02:47,860 of hell. 29 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:50,179 People have no fear of going to hell. 30 00:02:50,179 --> 00:02:57,779 They don't care, and someone told me once who was a mistress to a married man, and she 31 00:02:57,779 --> 00:03:01,300 said to me, Father, I know I'm going to

[03:47] hell, but I don't care. 32 00:03:02,179 --> 00:03:13,779 How can one think that their sin is more important than eternal happiness with God in this passing 33 00:03:13,779 --> 00:03:14,779 world? 34 00:03:14,779 --> 00:03:21,059 And so our Lord is just reminding us how important it is

[04:03] to observe the commandments and to teach 35 00:03:21,059 --> 00:03:23,779 others to do so. 36 00:03:23,779 --> 00:03:29,660 And even perhaps we lose a sense of sin thinking, oh, that's just a small sin or that's a venial 37 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:36,899 sin, and it's just a reminder

[04:21] to us that even our venial sins, Jesus had to suffer 38 00:03:36,899 --> 00:03:37,899 and die for them. 39 00:03:37,899 --> 00:03:43,100 He even had to suffer and die for our venial sins so that they could be forgiven. 40 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:47,860 So this Lenten season is just a time for us to reflect, and I want to be faithful and 41 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:49,139 observe God's commandments. 42 00:03:49,139 --> 00:03:52,259 I want to be faithful in following Jesus Christ. 43 00:03:52,259 --> 00:03:58,059 No matter what the world says, I want to be faithful to Jesus who died for my sins, who 44 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:03,100 died so that I could share in that eternal glory to be with God forever in heaven. 45 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:08,820 May Mary, our mother, the refuge of sinners, help us to turn back to her Son whenever we 46 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:15,339 fall without fear, but with confidence in the mercy that God has waiting for us so that 47 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:21,260 we can be renewed and restored in following Christ with ever greater faith fidelity. 48 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:24,260 In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 49 00:04:24,260 --> 00:04:25,260 Amen. 50 00:04:25,459 --> 00:04:26,459 Lent. 51 00:04:26,459 --> 00:04:27,459 Lent. 52 00:04:27,459 --> 00:04:28,459 Lent. 53 00:04:28,459 --> 00:04:29,459 Lent.