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🗓️ 11 July 2019
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Fr. Mike goes all the way back to Genesis to explain why Catholics have a pope. God established the kingdom of Israel with the twelve sons of Jacob. Centuries later, he appointed David as the king who would unite this kingdom. Centuries after that kingdom was divided, Jesus established a new kingdom by appointing the twelve apostles.
To unite this new kingdom, which is the Church, he appointed Peter as his vicar here on earth. Jesus is the king, but he gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter. This means Peter and his successors play the role of the “prime minister”, or the right-hand-man, or the steward of the king while Jesus is gone.
The papacy may be a divisive topic today, but clearly God gave his Church a pope as a sign of unity for all who are a part of the new kingdom Christ established.
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0:00.0 | How many of these are my experiments? |
0:05.3 | And this is the sentient presents. |
0:06.8 | So the Pope, right? |
0:08.8 | Not like our current Pope, but like the idea of the Pope is a, the reality of the Pope |
0:14.4 | is a thing that a lot of times people don't understand whether they're not Catholic and |
0:17.6 | they're like, what the heck, what's the Pope? |
0:19.5 | I don't think he's very important. |
0:21.1 | Or there are Catholic and they're like, what the heck, what's with the Pope? |
0:23.9 | I don't understand this whole thing because I think a lot of people buy into the idea |
0:28.4 | that the papacy, the way you say it, the, the, the Pope, the idea, the role of the Pope, |
0:33.2 | is a thing that like the church invented. |
0:35.6 | False actually was invented by God himself. |
0:38.8 | In the same way that God invented the universe. |
0:42.4 | Here's a long story. |
0:43.4 | I'll start way back in the beginning. |
0:45.3 | But early enough in the beginning to give you kind of a context for how it's very, very |
0:50.6 | clear that Jesus establishes Peter as the first Pope and that he expects. |
0:55.2 | Not only Peter, but all subsequent, subsequent, successors of Peter to be that role of the, |
1:01.6 | the Pope, the Pope, the Pope role. |
1:03.3 | So it all actually kind of starts in many ways with the Kingdom of Israel. |
1:06.6 | Let's go way, way, way back. |
1:09.6 | You have Abraham, he has a son Isaac who has a son Jacob. |
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