there's a promise made by Jesus called the extraordinary promise what's that it's what's given on Divine Mercy Sunday and I'm so excited that this will be heard prior to Divine Mercy Sunday and really it can be heard any day of the year because then you can prepare for the next divine mercy Sunday there is something that Jesus promised to St fina in the diary to all of us in the paragraph number 699 is what we call the extraordinary promise this is such an incredible grace that has been called by many scholars including John Paul Rojitzki others it's like a second baptism now it's not a second baptism we don't get baptized twice but it's like a second baptism cuz what happens at baptism let's suppose you're an adult and you get baptized what happens yeah freed of original sin incorporated into the body of Christ uh yeah cleansed of all sin and punishment and punishment for that sin temporal punishment so a lot of people don't realize when you come out of the confessional if you have a valid confession Yeah which is confess all grave sins you can remember have some form of contrition doesn't have to be perfect thank goodness and yeah no kidding i I believe I've reached perfect contrition one time in my life help me Lord um and you do some form of satisfaction equitable to the sin that's been committed you have a valid confession if you come out of that confessional after a valid confession people say "Well does there any punishment remain everything's gone. " No the eternal punishment due to sin is gone aka hell but there's a great chance that the temporal punishment may remain even after confession we think well father what are you talking about all right the temporal punishment due to sin is is is very scary if you listen to the saints because it's terrifying um I equate it to my own story of a a a father with a boy in the in the in the yard playing baseball all right the boy's playing baseball in the yard the dad comes home sees this and says "No son you're not to play baseball in the yard you're going to break this window. " And the son thinks cuz he's playing baseball the other way that it's not going to a foul is not going to go backwards and break the window now the the dad makes it very clear you're not to play baseball in the yard you're going to break the window dad goes to work his buddies come over talk him into it it's a little devil on the shoulder and they talk him into playing baseball in the yard sure enough foul ball goes straight back breaks the window dad comes home after having giving him a commandment not to do that the son willfully broke that commandment so the dad comes home does the dad withhold forgiveness does the dad disown him does the dad remove him from the house to never ever come back again no the father forgives him but does the dad say "Go back to playing baseball now son go enjoy your day no he says "You're grounded for two weeks and you're going to pay for this out of your allowance because you disobeyed me i love you you're forgiven but you're going to pay for this out of your allowance.
" This is the temporal punishment due to sin and the promise of divine mercy Sunday is not only is all your sin forgiven but all that temporal punishment due to sin is forgiven now back to your point about um the naysayers you pointed out something excellent you said you have to have consciously aware you know a lot of naysayers about divine mercy will say you know what you're treating it as a free ticket to sin no you don't get this extraordinary promise you don't get this grace unless you have rectification of the will you have to have some rectification of the will that I don't want this sin i I'm going to try to put this these sins behind me i can't just say you know I've been carrying on an affair i've been cheating on my taxes um I've been embezzling money laundering money but you know what i can run to the church and get this cool grace and wipe my slate clean hey I'm gonna go do that now i can continue to sin in the past in the future but at least I've cleaned up my whole past from the background no without rectification of the will this grace is not effective so what does Jesus say to do to get this grace simply go to confession now it doesn't have to be on Divine Mercy Sunday it can be sometime before as long as you're in a state of grace so St fina went to Saturday before go to confession and receive holy communion in a state of grace and basically ask God for the grace of the forgiveness of sins and the remission of the temporal punishment due to sin there's no other conditions now somebody might say "Father that's pretty lame you're saying that nobody has to do anything but do that there's a lot in going back to the sacraments it's powerful going back to the sacraments but you must have that rectification of the will to go with it the Old Testament prophet and the name's escaping me hopefully you can help me who tells the fell to go and wash him non to go wash himself in the uh the pool the river pool whatever and uh he he he was frustrated because it it was that simple and he said "Look if you were asked to do something elaborate or difficult you would have done it. " But because it's something you despise it n is a good example and because we can't believe that it's something this simple anybody all right any snake can crawl out of the gutter go to confession and receive holy communion and as long as he has a rectification of the will can receive this incredible grace well why is this impossible to believe the church offers the same thing in a plenary indulgence the plenary indulgence is the forgiveness of sins and the remission of the temporal sin for the sins confessed okay you know why Divine Mercy Sunday is even greater than a plenary indulgence two reasons one we can still be broken and get this grace you mean attached to sin do you know how happy that makes me whenever somebody told me I can get a plenary indulgence if I'm not attached to sin I'm like what does that mean that's like saying you can fly up there if you can fly up there exactly do you know Philip Ner was revealed to him in the cathedral no that there were,200 people at the cathedral together doing um an act of plenary indulgence it was revealed to him that two people got a plenary indulgence that's huge that's what's funny is we've got Protestant listeners who are very lost but we'll get to them in a second but these Catholics who are listening that's important to realize so look at me in the eyeballs this is the last month you can get this Pints with Aquinus beerstein for free just this month the last month April so go over to mattfrad. locals.
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