Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal released what is hopefully going to
Speaker 1: go down is the most important story about the Biden administration,
Speaker 1: which is this long, thirty eight hundred word, deeply sourced,
Speaker 1: deeply detailed story about Joe Biden's deteriorating mental health. The
Speaker 1: deterioration of his mental health that took place over the
Speaker 1: course of his entire term in office, and I would
Speaker 1: guess started during the campaign season, or was going on
Speaker 1: during the campaign season before he was even sworn in.
Speaker 1: One of the excerpts from the story that I read
Speaker 1: was this, if the president was having an off day,
Speaker 1: meetings could be scrapped altogether. On one such occasion, in
Speaker 1: the spring of twenty twenty one, a national security official
Speaker 1: explained to another AID why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. Quote,
Speaker 1: he has good days and bad days, and today was
Speaker 1: a bad day. So we're going to address this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The former AID recalled the official, saying, spring of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. He was only sworn in in January of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, so within a month or two we
Speaker 1: were at the well, you know, old Grandpa, he has
Speaker 1: good days and he has bad days. We kind of
Speaker 1: need to understand fully the enormity of what we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, and to do that, we have to kind
Speaker 1: of understand sort of the theoretical structure of the executive
Speaker 1: branch of government. Theoretical but also very practical. So what
Speaker 1: is the structure of the executive branch. It's sort of
Speaker 1: the unitary theory of the executive branch. Some people talk
Speaker 1: about it as the whole structure of the executive branch
Speaker 1: is premised around the fact that the law enforcement power,
Speaker 1: the executive power of the federal government of the United
Speaker 1: States of America is only vested in one man, one
Speaker 1: single human being. Read Article two of the Constitution. The
Speaker 1: executive power is vested in the president. That's it. He's
Speaker 1: the only one. Everyone else in the executive branch is
Speaker 1: exercising his delegated power. Now, Congress can create the executive
Speaker 1: agencies that the president runs through his appointees. Congress through
Speaker 1: the Senate, has a vetting process for the president's appointees,
Speaker 1: but once they're there, the president runs the show. He
Speaker 1: has to run the show, obviously within the parameters of
Speaker 1: the law as set by Congress, but he runs it.
Speaker 1: If you look at the org chart of every single
Speaker 1: executive branch, department, every the whole alphabet soup of federal agencies,
Speaker 1: the EPA, the FDA, the SBA, the Department of Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, the Partament of
Speaker 1: the Defense, Department of the Secretary of State, every single
Speaker 1: branch and division of the federal government. The org chart
Speaker 1: for all of them has at the very tippy top
Speaker 1: ultimately the President. The FBI. This FBI official is under
Speaker 1: the authority of this FBI officials is under the authority
Speaker 1: this person is under the authority of this deputy director
Speaker 1: of the FBI, is under the authority of the Director
Speaker 1: of the FBI, who's under the authority of the Secretary
Speaker 1: excuse me, of the Attorney General, who is under the President.
Speaker 1: This FDA flunky is under the direction of this person
Speaker 1: at the FDA, who's under the direction of the director
Speaker 1: of the FDA, who's under the director of the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Health Human Services, who is under the President. The
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands and thousands of federal employees all ultimately
Speaker 1: answer to him. They are all all ultimately supposed to
Speaker 1: enact his will within the parameters of the laws that
Speaker 1: have been set and written by Congress. But he executes
Speaker 1: the law. The various US attorneys who prosecute federal crimes,
Speaker 1: who civilly enforce federal law, they can all be fired
Speaker 1: or replaced with a snap of the fingers by the
Speaker 1: President of the United States. So the president controls the
Speaker 1: entire executive branch. His will controls. So you're telling me
Speaker 1: that this essential lynchpin for the whole system was under
Speaker 1: the control of someone who was senile. It's got to
Speaker 1: be one of the greatest scandals in the history of
Speaker 1: the United States of America. And we've known about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I would do a see I told
Speaker 1: you so, except the whole country saw it. The whole
Speaker 1: country saw it last June, this past June during the debate.
Speaker 1: This was not a well man But we Republicans were
Speaker 1: pointing it out as early as the twenty twenty campaign.
Speaker 1: We were pointing it out after the Afghanistan withdrawal where
Speaker 1: Biden had this press conference where he seemed completely disconnected
Speaker 1: from reality, and we were told that we were lunatics,
Speaker 1: we were radicals. We were doing deep you know, cheap fakes,
Speaker 1: you know, selectively editing stuff to make him look older
Speaker 1: than he was. And it wasn't until George Clooney, of
Speaker 1: all people, said the President's not there, that anyone was
Speaker 1: willing to admit it, And even after that, astonishingly and
Speaker 1: clearly because some kind of deal had been hatched, even
Speaker 1: when we pitched Biden out as the Democrat nominee for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election, they didn't insist that Biden
Speaker 1: resigned the office. At the time, that was why I
Speaker 1: thought it was that. That was at the time why
Speaker 1: I thought Biden wouldn't jump out of the race. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think Biden's going to jump out of the
Speaker 1: race because I don't think he's willingly going to resign
Speaker 1: the presidency. And it would be insane, I said at
Speaker 1: the time, it would be insane for him to jump
Speaker 1: out of the race because he's not mentally fit enough
Speaker 1: to continue but stay on as president, because allegedly he's
Speaker 1: allegedly he could thread the needle of being mentally fit
Speaker 1: enough to be president but not run for president, mentally
Speaker 1: and physically fit enough to be president but not run
Speaker 1: for president. As if being president isn't a harder task
Speaker 1: than campaigning, an infinitely harder, more serious, more difficult task
Speaker 1: than campaigning. But the Democrats somehow, Well, maybe they didn't
Speaker 1: get away with it because Kamala Harris lost that the
Speaker 1: Democrats sort of thought they could get away with and
Speaker 1: the press never castigated them for Hey, why are we
Speaker 1: letting this man continue to be president if we don't
Speaker 1: think he's mentally fit enough to run for president? Because
Speaker 1: that raises all kinds of questions. In addition to running
Speaker 1: all as part of running all the different branches of
Speaker 1: the federal government, he's also the commander in chief of
Speaker 1: the military. If our commander in chief, the guy who
Speaker 1: makes the ultimate decisions, is senile. What happens if a
Speaker 1: foreign enemy attacks us? What's gonna happen. Who's gonna be
Speaker 1: calling the shots? Actually? Who is calling the shots for anything?
Speaker 1: Right now? Actually? If this is a man who has
Speaker 1: good days and has bad days, who you can't schedule
Speaker 1: meetings because you're not sure, if he's waking up on
Speaker 1: the totally forgetful side of bed, how can we function?
Speaker 1: It is upending the entire constitutional order. The entire constitutional
Speaker 1: order is premised around this man directing the operations of
Speaker 1: the executive branch of government of enforcing the law. He
Speaker 1: was clearly unfit to do that. He may have been
Speaker 1: un fit to do it from day one, he was
Speaker 1: certainly unfit to do it by year four. I think
Speaker 1: this reflects disastrously badly on several people. First, the press. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now the media is going to open up their
Speaker 1: notebooks and tell us about how senile Joe Biden was
Speaker 1: the whole time, now that there's no political repercussions for
Speaker 1: it whatsoever. They let us in on a few things
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty four when they were saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to get Biden out of here, we gotta
Speaker 1: get Biden out so we could switch out Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: But now that there's absolutely no political ramifications, Biden's gone,
Speaker 1: Harris lost, Trump's in, we might as well just, you know,
Speaker 1: get a story that generates a lot of clicks. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the media, these supporting guardians of
Speaker 1: democracy that you know, democracy dies in darkness. As the
Speaker 1: Washington Post tells us, these guardians of democracy didn't tell
Speaker 1: us that the executive branch of government was being headed
Speaker 1: by a senile person, which leads us to ask, well,
Speaker 1: who is actually running the country. The people elected Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who is actually running the country people whom they didn't elect.
Speaker 1: I think it reflects terribly on the media. I think
Speaker 1: it also reflects terribly on Kamala Harris and Biden's cabinet.
Speaker 1: It's not like the constitution doesn't foresee this problem. We
Speaker 1: have the twenty fifth Amendment. Twenty fifth Amendment came about
Speaker 1: in part after the example of President Woodrow Wilson, where
Speaker 1: by the end Woodrow Wilson's wife was basically running the country.
Speaker 1: It was as a completely horrible situation where Wilson was
Speaker 1: completely incapacitated and his wife was the one issuing order.
Speaker 1: One wonders if Jill Biden wasn't doing possibly something similar
Speaker 1: for certain things. Anyway, who's issuing this pardon of Hunter Biden.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have the provision of the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth Amendment if the vice president and a majority of
Speaker 1: the president's cabinet concludes so the president can be removed
Speaker 1: from office. Harris never did that, and presumably she didn't
Speaker 1: even do that in June of twenty twenty four, when
Speaker 1: it was inescapably obvious to the entire nation what was
Speaker 1: going on, clearly because of some kind of deal that
Speaker 1: was hatched, some kind of political deal I think, and
Speaker 1: made it clear to them I'll drop out of the race,
Speaker 1: but I want my presidential library. I want that fully funded.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna step down as president, and if you
Speaker 1: cross me, I will sink you in this election. I'm
Speaker 1: sure some kind of threat, some kind of something happened
Speaker 1: like that, so clearly, I mean, there's no other explanation.
Speaker 1: There's no other explanation why I am politically ambitious person
Speaker 1: like Kamala Harris didn't do that other than the raw
Speaker 1: political calculus that I'd be politically disadvantaged if I pulled
Speaker 1: a twenty fifth amendment and removed Biden from office, even
Speaker 1: though that's clearly what she should have done, at least
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty four. But really she should
Speaker 1: have done it as soon as she realized the man
Speaker 1: was senile and not fit for his job, because it's
Speaker 1: like an imminent threat to the whole constitutional order. When
Speaker 1: we return, we'll dig more into this, which I think
Speaker 1: has to be the story of the entire Biden presidency.
Speaker 1: Next on the John Growardy Show, the revelations that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden was likely senile all along, I think could put
Speaker 1: the cap on the Biden legacy history is written by
Speaker 1: liberals largely, which is why JFK gets lionized so much.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he was that great of a president, JFK,
Speaker 1: but he's certainly, you know, he captured the imagination of
Speaker 1: a lot of the baby boomer and older historians who
Speaker 1: are writing about it, you know, Doris Kern's Good Wins
Speaker 1: of the world, who you know, will always you know,
Speaker 1: put down Camelot as this magical time, the Kennedys as
Speaker 1: this magical beloved American family, when they're seemingly the worst family,
Speaker 1: the most dysfunctional family anyone's ever seen. So to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, will historians be a little kinder to Joe
Speaker 1: Biden than he deserves? Probably, but I don't know by
Speaker 1: how much. This Wall Street journal piece again, this huge
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred word thing about people. Now the journalists
Speaker 1: are now opening up their notebooks now that there's no chance,
Speaker 1: now that you know, the political risk of Trump winning
Speaker 1: has already happened, they figured there's no political repercussions anymore,
Speaker 1: so they might as well just tell the truth about
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Of course, this would have been valuable information
Speaker 1: to have had at any point over the four years
Speaker 1: of the Biden administration. But now they're letting us know,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we knew he was senile the whole time.
Speaker 1: We totally knew. And I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be maybe the first line of his legacy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had to step out of his reelection bid because
Speaker 1: of this. Consistently this was an issue. I mean, the
Speaker 1: fact is, it's kind of shameful. It's shameful that Biden
Speaker 1: didn't recognize at some point that he didn't have what
Speaker 1: it took to keep being president. He should have realized
Speaker 1: he didn't have the stuff to try to run for
Speaker 1: president again. He was only forced out of running for president.
Speaker 1: I think his family should be completely ashamed of him
Speaker 1: of this, and I think this is going to dominate
Speaker 1: Biden's legacy as an ineffective president who was unfit for office.
Speaker 1: When we return, I want to talk about some new
Speaker 1: Catholic saints that are being canonized by Pope Francis in
Speaker 1: a little bit about Christmas. Next on the John Girardi Show,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go a little off the beaten path
Speaker 1: today for those of us who are Catholics and a
Speaker 1: lot of other Christian traditions Lutherans and Episcopalians, etc. Are
Speaker 1: going through Advent right now, so it's kind of the
Speaker 1: season of time prior to Christmas where it's a bit
Speaker 1: more of a penitential season before the sort of joyful
Speaker 1: season of Christmas. And one of the recurring themes in
Speaker 1: Catholic prayer life during Advent is the idea of light
Speaker 1: shining in darkness. This can be seen in the first
Speaker 1: chapter of the Gospel of John, the Beautiful. The beautiful
Speaker 1: opening chapter of the Gospel of John, which is this
Speaker 1: incredible almost philosophical reflection upon the person of Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and the second person of the Trinity, God assuming human
Speaker 1: nature without losing his divinity, This divine person assuming human nature,
Speaker 1: and the concept of the second person of the Trinity
Speaker 1: as the Word of God, Jesus Christ as the expression
Speaker 1: the expression of the Father in a sense, and it
Speaker 1: also views this is viewed as light. The opening chapter
Speaker 1: of the Gospel of John here is I'm pulling it
Speaker 1: up talking about first First, it's talking about John the
Speaker 1: Baptist and says of him, he was not the light.
Speaker 1: John the Baptist was not the light, but came to
Speaker 1: bear witness to the light who is Jesus, the true
Speaker 1: light that enlightens every man, was coming into the world.
Speaker 1: And it's not a coincidence also that, you know, the
Speaker 1: liturgical celebration of Christmas happens very close to the longest
Speaker 1: night of the year. The winter solstice is December twenty first.
Speaker 1: It's the shortest day and the longest night of the year.
Speaker 1: And so after that point and Jesus, you know, we
Speaker 1: commemorate Jesus' birthday on the twenty fifth of December. From
Speaker 1: that point onward, light grows. So from the absolute darkest
Speaker 1: point of the year, light begins to grow. And there
Speaker 1: are all kinds of beautiful traditions within the Catholic Church
Speaker 1: about in Advent, especially about being in the dark but
Speaker 1: commemorating the light. On Saturdays in Advent, it was traditional
Speaker 1: to have Mass very early in the morning by candle light.
Speaker 1: The mass sort of commemorating the role of the blessed
Speaker 1: Virgin Mary. It was called the Roraate Mass, is the
Speaker 1: name of from one of the Latin prayers of it.
Speaker 1: And so the Mass would be held very early in
Speaker 1: the morning in the dark, only illumined by candles. The
Speaker 1: Feast of Saint Lucy Saint Lucy was an early Roman martyr,
Speaker 1: a virgin martyr whose death. Her name Lucy comes from
Speaker 1: the Latin word light, and her feast day is on
Speaker 1: December thirteenth, which was I think before the Gregorian before
Speaker 1: the Gregorian calendar was adopted, December thirteenth was actually the
Speaker 1: longest night of the year. So her feast day was
Speaker 1: this little light of hope and the witness, particularly of
Speaker 1: the saints and of the martyrs, who gave their lives
Speaker 1: in testimony to the light, in testimony to the Word,
Speaker 1: in testimony to the truth. Like Saint Lucy, are these
Speaker 1: little shining lights in the midst of darkness that have
Speaker 1: always inspired Christians throughout the two millennia of our history.
Speaker 1: Pope Benedict talked about this a lot that may be
Speaker 1: one of the greatest proofs of Christianity. Not a deductive proof,
Speaker 1: but perhaps an inductive proof, comes from the example of
Speaker 1: the lives of the saints, the way that holy men
Speaker 1: and women throughout the course of the two thousand year
Speaker 1: history of Christianity led lives of such extraordinary power and virtue,
Speaker 1: from people who were very great to people who were
Speaker 1: very small. To see the incredible transformation in their life
Speaker 1: lives that the Gospel affected. Pope Francis on the eighteenth
Speaker 1: announced the canonization of a group of women who will
Speaker 1: become who will be honored as saints within the Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: the Martyrs of Compaigny. This was a group of women
Speaker 1: who were martyred on July seventeenth, seventeen ninety four, at
Speaker 1: the height the zenith of the insanity of the French Revolution,
Speaker 1: and Pope Francis announcing that they're going to be canonized
Speaker 1: makes me want to talk about them because the story
Speaker 1: their story is kind of amazing, profoundly inspiring, and I
Speaker 1: think very fitting to talk about an advent when we're
Speaker 1: talking about a light shining in the darkness. So the
Speaker 1: French Revolution got kicks started by terrible economic conditions in France.
Speaker 1: France was the most populous in some ways sort of
Speaker 1: the dominant country in Europe at the time in the
Speaker 1: late eighteenth century, but France was heavily in debt, the
Speaker 1: terrible financial situation, had a couple of terrible harvests, and
Speaker 1: basically the financial situation was such that people were running
Speaker 1: short on bread, not a good thing, and the French
Speaker 1: sort of system of how taxation would work. The sort
Speaker 1: of system of privilege where being part of the nobility
Speaker 1: meant you weren't taxed specifically, was becoming more and more
Speaker 1: onerous and more and more unsustainable within the economy. And
Speaker 1: so you had basically anyone with an old traditional title,
Speaker 1: an old traditional landholdings was not really subject to taxation,
Speaker 1: and if they became barely subject to taxation, they pitched
Speaker 1: a fit. The so called ancient regime, the old regime,
Speaker 1: the old Guard came to be the subject of deep
Speaker 1: hatred and bitter resentment, in some cases quite legitimately on
Speaker 1: the part of the French people, or at least some
Speaker 1: of the French people. Combined with that was also a
Speaker 1: lot of Enlightenment thinkers who were rejecting Christianity wholesale and
Speaker 1: started to view Catholicism as part and parcel of the
Speaker 1: on sen regime, the part and parcel of this older
Speaker 1: political taxation system that they thought oppressed the common people
Speaker 1: at the expense of the elites and the wealthy. Louis
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, who was actually the king who was deposed
Speaker 1: and executed by the French Revolution, was actually far not
Speaker 1: nearly as bad as prior French kings had been. Louis
Speaker 1: the fifteenth was actually far worse and far more kind
Speaker 1: of dissolute and dissolute and sort of totally separated from
Speaker 1: the people and morally corrupt, et cetera. Louis the sixteenth
Speaker 1: than Marie Antoinette actually had a fairly a fairly vanilla marriage,
Speaker 1: where you know, Louis the fifteenth had like an official
Speaker 1: place in court for his official court mistress, like she
Speaker 1: was designated as the official mistress, and he rotated through
Speaker 1: a couple and when lou the sixteenth married Marie Antoinette,
Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette was actually a pretty good Catholic. She was,
Speaker 1: you know, a princess from Austria, and she basically said, nope,
Speaker 1: we're not going to have an official office for an
Speaker 1: official king's mistress. Nope, that's not happening. And most of
Speaker 1: the evidence indicates that actually she and Louis the sixteenth
Speaker 1: were pretty faithful to each other, but actually genuinely faithful
Speaker 1: to each other. A lot of the literature about Marie
Speaker 1: Antoinette being sort of a loose living gal was sort
Speaker 1: of propaganda by people who despised her position in court
Speaker 1: for various kinds of political reasons. She was always under
Speaker 1: suspicion because she was Austrian and there's kind of a
Speaker 1: lot of geopolitical rivalries between France and Austria, which her
Speaker 1: marriage to Louis was supposed to bridge that gap, but
Speaker 1: was not really successful at doing that anyway. The revolt
Speaker 1: over taxation, over the lack of taxation by the nobility,
Speaker 1: led to various kinds of political instability. It led to
Speaker 1: the lawyers and journalists sort of making themselves sort of
Speaker 1: the self appointed representatives of the people, developing the estates general.
Speaker 1: And then at a certain point, the rejection of the
Speaker 1: nobility brought along with it a rejection of Catholicism, and
Speaker 1: anyone who stood in the way of this revolution who
Speaker 1: clung in any way, shape or form to the authority,
Speaker 1: the authority figures of the old regime was deemed to
Speaker 1: be an enemy of the state, and the French Revolution
Speaker 1: was The French Revolution was completely different from the American Revolution.
Speaker 1: The American Revolution was basically, we want to retain the
Speaker 1: traditional privileges that we think normal Englishmen are supposed to have.
Speaker 1: We feel like we've been denied this as colonists. We're
Speaker 1: not changing our whole culture. We're not changing our whole religion,
Speaker 1: We're not changing our whole way of thinking. We just
Speaker 1: you're taxing us unfairly, and we don't want to be
Speaker 1: taxed unfairly. We want to, you know, if you're not
Speaker 1: going to treat us fairly, we want to be self
Speaker 1: governing and re establish more or less the same kinds
Speaker 1: of systems that we had before the revolution. You know,
Speaker 1: colonial legislatures turned into state legislatures. That was not the
Speaker 1: French Revolution. The French Revolution was a complete upheaval and
Speaker 1: overturning of all of the norms of society within France,
Speaker 1: a complete rejection of Catholicism, going to the cathedral of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame and putting up an eye a statue to
Speaker 1: the Goddess Liberty, changing the calendar to eliminate Sunday, basically
Speaker 1: changing the seven day week, eliminating it so that Sunday
Speaker 1: was eliminated, having the state seize control of all churchholdings.
Speaker 1: The revolution got to such a point that anyone who
Speaker 1: supported the old way was subject to death, and the
Speaker 1: guillotine became the symbol of the revolution, where thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of people were executed for their attachment to the
Speaker 1: old regime, including many many people for their attachment to Catholicism.
Speaker 1: This brings us to the nuns of Compagni, which was
Speaker 1: a convent of Carmelite nuns. The Carmelite orders a community
Speaker 1: of Catholic monks, priests and nuns who they're named after
Speaker 1: Mount Carmel, which is mentioned in the Old Testament quite
Speaker 1: a bit, which is in the Holy Land, sort of
Speaker 1: taking their inspiration from the prophet Elijah, and they live
Speaker 1: lives of penance and prayer. Very often Carmelite nuns were
Speaker 1: they were a contemplative order that they weren't really doing
Speaker 1: much as far as like nursing or things like that.
Speaker 1: Their lives were focused almost exclusively on prayer. This community
Speaker 1: of nuns from Compagny, the sixteen sisters, ranging in age
Speaker 1: from nineteen to seventy nine, were arrested by the French
Speaker 1: revolutionary authorities because they refused to give up trying to
Speaker 1: live their way of life even after their monastery. After
Speaker 1: their convent seized, they were charged with religious fanaticism. That
Speaker 1: was the charge for being fanatics and they were sentenced
Speaker 1: to death. So on July seventeenth, seventeen ninety four, these
Speaker 1: nuns were led to the guillotine in Paris, and each
Speaker 1: one of these nuns, they were chanting together the Latin
Speaker 1: hymn Veni Creator Spiritus, Come, Holy Spirit, Come, Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: Fill the hearts of thy faithful, and all of the
Speaker 1: nuns kept singing. There was a play that I was
Speaker 1: made into an opera by Georges Bernanos, called The Dialogues
Speaker 1: of the Carmelites, which recounts their story. In that story,
Speaker 1: the mother superior, the sort of senior nun who's in charge,
Speaker 1: commanded that the youngest nun be the first in line
Speaker 1: so that she wouldn't lose heart, so that she would
Speaker 1: have all of her sisters with her when she died.
Speaker 1: And one by one, the singing of this chant nikreoto
Speaker 1: horse spirits. This chant got quieter and quieter as one
Speaker 1: by one, another sister's head was chopped off, until finally
Speaker 1: the last nun was executed, refusing to bend before the authorities.
Speaker 1: Bernanos's play, The Dialogue of the Caramelites, it puts these
Speaker 1: words into the mouth of the mother. They're superior in
Speaker 1: her argument, her sort of shouting match with the French authorities.
Speaker 1: When She was trying to ensure that the youngest nun
Speaker 1: wouldn't lose heart. She said, she is first under my protection.
Speaker 1: Do you think I shall permit you to take any
Speaker 1: further advantage of the terror of a child? I shall
Speaker 1: take great care to avoid a language that you cannot understand.
Speaker 1: You know nothing of that which holds us here and
Speaker 1: keeps us united unto death, Or if once you knew it,
Speaker 1: it is now certainly forgotten. But there are still perhaps
Speaker 1: words which are common to us and which can touch
Speaker 1: your conscience. Well, sir, you must know that to the
Speaker 1: poorest daughter of Carmel, honor speaks louder than fear. That
Speaker 1: is light shining in the darkness. So Pope Francis declared
Speaker 1: that these amazing, heroic nuns will be honored as Catholic
Speaker 1: saints every year on the day of their death, July seventeenth.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to share that with you this advent,
Speaker 1: these lights burning bright in the midst of darkness, giving
Speaker 1: testimony to the light that shines in the world when
Speaker 1: we return. A quick little reminder about what Christmas is
Speaker 1: really all about. Next on The John Girardi Show, the
Speaker 1: Christmas Story from the First chapter of the Holy Gospel.
Speaker 1: According to Saint John, in the beginning was the Word,
Speaker 1: and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Speaker 1: He was in the beginning with God. All things were
Speaker 1: made through Him, and without him was not anything made.
Speaker 1: That was made. In him was life, and the life
Speaker 1: was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
Speaker 1: and the darkness has not overcome it. A reading from
Speaker 1: the second Chapter of the Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke.
Speaker 1: Reading from the second Chapter of the Holy Gospel according
Speaker 1: to Saint Luke. In those days a decree went out
Speaker 1: from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
Speaker 1: This was the first enrollment when Coirinius was governor of Syria,
Speaker 1: and all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.
Speaker 1: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city
Speaker 1: of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David, which
Speaker 1: is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and
Speaker 1: lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed,
Speaker 1: who was with child. And while they were there, the
Speaker 1: time came for her to be delivered, and she gave
Speaker 1: birth to her first born son and wrapped him in
Speaker 1: swaddling cloths and laid him in a major because there
Speaker 1: was no place for them in the inning. And in
Speaker 1: that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping
Speaker 1: watch over their flock by night. And an angel of
Speaker 1: the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the
Speaker 1: Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.
Speaker 1: And the Angel said to them, be not afraid, for behold,
Speaker 1: I bring you good news of a great joy which
Speaker 1: will come to all the people. For to you is
Speaker 1: born this day in the City of David, a savior,
Speaker 1: whose Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign
Speaker 1: for you. You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling
Speaker 1: cloths and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was
Speaker 1: with the angel a multitude of the heaven post praising
Speaker 1: God and saying glory to God in the Highest and
Speaker 1: on earth peace among men with whom He is clust
Speaker 1: When the angels went away from them into heaven, the
Speaker 1: shepherds said to one another, let us go over to
Speaker 1: Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the
Speaker 1: Lord has made known to us. And they went with
Speaker 1: haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying
Speaker 1: in a mange, And when they saw it, they made
Speaker 1: known the same which had been told them concerning the child,
Speaker 1: and all who heard it wonder at what the shepherds
Speaker 1: told them. But Mary kept all these things, pondering them
Speaker 1: in her heart. Merry Christmas from the John direcon Shepherd,
Speaker 1: See you next time.