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🗓️ 8 March 2021
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Homily from the Third Sunday of Lent.
Is the question, “Can I trust God?” Or is the better question, “Can God trust me?"
There is something that all of us discover about ourselves the moment we have a minute of self-reflection: we have the capacity to do the things we hate. In spite of our best efforts and sincere desires to be consistently good, we have this thing in our chests that ought not to be trusted. We have treacherous hearts. And yet, Jesus entrusts His Heart to ours at every Mass.
John 2:13-25
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0:00.0 | So there's this man named Dr. Ricardo Casanion. |
0:06.0 | He was born in Bolivia and he ultimately became, and now is after going through a lot of schooling, |
0:12.0 | he became an accomplished neuropsychophysiologist, which basically means he became an expert in knowing how the physical and chemical activities of the brain relate to human behavior. |
0:22.0 | So the fancy term for that, neuropsychophysiologist. |
0:25.0 | And he again accomplished in his field, incredible in his field, an incredible scientist, and in the process of him studying underneath genius people, Nobel Prize winners, |
0:36.0 | and he was exposed to this idea again and again that all there is in this world is just what you can see. |
0:41.0 | All there is in this world is just matter. |
0:43.0 | That there's no such thing as spirit, no such thing as soul, definitely no such thing as God, because if you can't see it, it doesn't exist. |
0:50.0 | Dr. Ricardo Casanion became a pretty staunch atheist, for almost his entire life. |
0:59.0 | And all of that changed in 1999 when he was invited to look through a microscope and report what he saw. |
1:12.0 | We're just going to get back to that in a little bit. |
1:15.0 | But before we get back to that, I just want to talk about kind of a difficult topic, and especially it's a difficult topic for a lot of us here in Minnesota. |
1:21.0 | I don't know if you're familiar with the term whiskey plates. |
1:24.0 | But if you are, if you're from Minnesota, we have these things called whiskey plates. |
1:27.0 | Basically, if you have had two DWIs within 10 years, or multiple DWIs within any number of years, or if you're a first-time offender and you blew a 0.16, |
1:39.0 | and I'll call content, a lot of times what you will get is you'll get a license plate that has a W as the first letter to indicate that you're someone who has gotten multiple DWIs. |
1:50.0 | And so again, we call them whiskey plates in the States, kind of like Minnesota Scarlet Letter. |
1:54.0 | I remember someone here who's someone described this. |
1:56.0 | They're controversial because, well, the idea behind the whole idea on whiskey plates is to alert police and other drivers to a potential dangerous driver. |
2:05.0 | It also does this thing as this consequence, it freezes a person's bad decision in time. |
2:11.0 | And every time they get in their car and drive around, their bad decision is on display for everybody. |
2:17.0 | As well as the decision of, I guess, anyone who would be borrowing their car, their spouse, or their kids. |
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