Day 309: Praying for the Dead (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The Importance of Prayer in Second Man
The insanity of turning to idols instead of turning to the living God in fact one of the gifts that we hear in chapter 13 of was masalman is that looking around the universe looking around at creation you should be able to perceive from the beauty of creation. In second man there's a really important orthodox eastern orthodox and catholic doctrine this was a doctrine of all Christians up to about year 1500 plus and it's the doctrine of praying for the dead. We rarely make idols out of bad things we almost always made idols out of good things idolatry really isn't taking evil evil things and making them into God it's taking taking good things andMaking them absolute things.
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