Peace be to you.

Up to this point we were talking about conscience as an unbearable repartee

and about the meaninglessness of life,

saying that we should lay our heart and mind open to saving experiences that come

from without and which completely change our character.

So the subject, therefore, of this particular talk will be the divine invasion.

But I believe the best way to start it is to tell you a story about a divine invasion.

A woman wrote to me about her brother,

saying that he was dying in a hospital,

and that he had been away from the sacraments for about 30 years.

She said he led not just a bad life, he was an evil man. There's a

difference between being bad and being evil. Bad man steals, bad man kills. An evil

an evil man may do none of those things, but he seeks to destroy goodness in others.

Well, he was an evil man. He did much to corrupt youth and circulated all manner of evil

pamphlets among the young to destroy both faith and morals.

And the sister of this man, which he wrote, said about 20 priests have called on him, and

he threw them all out of the hospital room.

So will you please go?

Last resort, Sheen, I am.

I visited him this particular night and stayed about five seconds,

because I knew that I would fare no better than anyone else.

But instead of just making one visit,

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