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Opening Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful andenkindle in them the fire of Your love.V. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.

R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.Let us pray. O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit, Youhave taught the hearts of Your faithful. In the same Spirithelp us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice in

Your consolation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.Amen.

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First Joyful Mystery The Annunciation

The Fifth Luminous MysteryThe Institution of theEucharist

Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke, and gave to them,and said: Take ye. This is my body. And having taken the

chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they alldrank of it. And he said to them: This is my blood of thenew testament, which shall be shed for many.

Mark 14:22-24

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Reality of Satan

Contraception and NFP

Make John and Saul do this:

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God has never been more absent from the Western mind than he is today.Additionally, we live in an age when almost every scientific advanceseems to be matched by some increase of cruelty in our entertainment,cynicism in our politics, ignorance of the past, consumer greed, littlegenocides posing as rights like the cult of abortion, and a basicconfusion about what if anything at all it means to be human.

It is very odd that in the wake of the bloodiest century in history acentury when tens of millions of human beings were shot, starved, gassedand incinerated with superhuman ingenuity even many religious leadersare embarrassed to talk about the devil.

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Satan was very real for Jesus. He was very real for Paul and theother great saints throughout history. And he is profoundlyformidable.

Lucifer has cast the strong though invisible net of illusion upon us.He makes one love the passing moment above eternity, uncertainty

above truth. He persuades us that we can only love creatures bymaking gods of them.

While many people in the developed world still claim to bereligious, their faith in the words of the Pontifical Council for Culture is often more a question of religious feeling than ademanding commitment to God.

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World Health Organization1977-78 7252.8% Philippines,0.06% India

U.S.A.1978 3291.1%

Hosp. Program Aug, Family Center, Bernard,C.1978-79 3,275

0% India

US Divorce rate 3%

NFP Effectiveness

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Artificial Contraception Side Effects

Oral ContraceptiveAbortifacientStrokeHeart DiseaseBreast Cancer NIH, WHO

IUDAbortifacientHigh Failure RateUterine Punctures

Condom 15-35%

High Failure Rate45 Million Have Incurable Venereal Disease 12 Million/year Vasectomy

Granuloma, Chronic Pain, 10%/year Increase in Prostate Cancer (one study), Anti-Sperm Antibodies, Kidney Stones

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The Really Bad Side Effect

He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in tohis brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children

should be born in his brother's name. And therefore the Lord slewhim, because he did a detestable thing. Gen 38:9-10

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Protestants Saved the Bible?*Throughout much of Church history, if you could read, you could

read Latin.The Church distributed the Bible in every country it was in, in the

common languageThere were 626 editions of the Bible, of which 198 were in the

language of the laitybefore the first Protestant versionThere were 27 versions of the Bible in the German language before

Martin Luthers versionIt was almost solely in those countries which have remained most

Catholic that vernacular versions of the Bible had been published prior to the Reformation.

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Stump Saul and John