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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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What is a human being? What happens when we die? Why do we visit cemeteries? And why do Catholics bury the dead instead of scattering their ashes?
Today, Fr. Mike connects the dignity of the human person to the dignity of the body in death—and beyond.
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0:00.0 | When a Jew would die, the Ninevins, Ninevites? |
0:02.0 | Ninevites, that's the names. |
0:03.3 | Ninevites would throw their bodies into the, |
0:06.4 | over the wall, outside into the, into the, |
0:09.4 | what it feels, right, race, place, what it called? |
0:11.2 | Well, Dennis, for us, not for us. |
0:12.5 | I, Caramba. |
0:13.5 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith, |
0:14.5 | and this is the center of presents. |
0:15.7 | So someone recently asked me this question, |
0:17.2 | they said, why is it that we as human beings, |
0:19.0 | but specifically as Catholic Christians, |
0:20.8 | why do we visit cemeteries? |
0:23.1 | Like, why would you go to someone's grave? |
0:25.3 | Because they said, well, they're not really there. |
0:27.9 | So, why would you go there, it's just their body? |
0:30.2 | And I thought, oh my gosh, this is such a great question |
0:32.0 | on so many levels, and actually opens up an opportunity |
0:34.7 | to talk about a bunch of different things. |
0:36.4 | The first thing is, what is a human being? |
0:39.0 | And we've talked about this before on these videos, |
0:41.1 | when we talk about theology of the body, |
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