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#11611 Questions from Society 315 - Joe Heschmeyer

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 14:25 – How did the Vatican end up in Rome, Italy along with the body of 19:19 – How many popes sat on the chair of Peter during the life of St. John the apostle? Are any of their writings to the Church available anywhere? 22:42 – I’ve been discussing the sacrifice of the mass with my wife who is protestant, and I told her that we, the regular attendee, are part of the sacrifice – partakers – and how we participate frequently in Christ’s perpetual sacrifice… Could you elaborate for me? It would be great if you could take us all the way from leviticus to the images of the lamb (as sacrificed) in revelation. How are our offerings involved too? 37:10 – Does the fact that that Didache does not appear to refer specifically to the Real Presence (only mentions the “Eucharist”) pose a problem for the assertion that the Early Church did actually believe in the Real Presence, since the Didache was one of the earliest surviving documents that we have from the Early Church? 46:00 – Where does the Bible say that a book CAN’T be a valid part of the Old Testament unless it’s quoted from in the New Testament? (this Protestant line of reasoning seems like a “Tradition of Men” to me.) 51:40 – I know we have the lineage of the Popes documented but the succession of bishops isn’t as well recorded – how can we know that certain branches of bishops are within succession? And if a bishop went off the rails went about those he ordained? …

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And Happy Easter and welcome to Catholic Answers live. It is Easter week. It is Easter season. Jesus is risen.

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Hallelujah. He is truly risen and we've got a great show for you today and we're in a celebratory mood and

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It is April Fool's Day as well a lot going on and but that's not

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an April Fool's that's a real historical fact Jesus is risen from the dead the the first fruits, and we hope to join him one day.

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And all of that is joyful, joyful, joyful, so I hope it's a joyful day for you.

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It's going to be extra joyful for us because Joe

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Heshmire is here and I'll explain the way we're going to do open forum

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today but first I'll introduce Joe Heshmire.

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Apologists here at Catholic Answers, Father, lawyer, former seminary, and all around great guy.

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Hello, Joe Heshmire.

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Hi, it's good to be here.

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Boy, do I sound loud and you sound softer?

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Or are we all right?

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You sound very faint to me is that just my

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headphones oh I don't know it might just be your headphones I I hear you fine oh okay

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all right very good well happy Easter Joe likewise so you know, for those listening at home, I'm going to spoil the magic slightly and say this is the most transgressive part of Catholic

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answers because we have to pre-record these episodes because by the time you're hearing this on Easter Monday, both of us are probably

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going to be in diabetic comas from eating chocolate eggs and such and you know just an overabundance of Easter joy and so we record these during Lent and it feels totally inappropriate.

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It's you know like looking at the bride before the wedding day.

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Wait I mean on the wedding I don't know how that works.

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I think you're allowed to look at the bride before.

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At some point during the dating process, you're not going to each other.

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