DOLW PODCAST 27: April 30, 2021 Rite of Sodomy, by Randy Engel p. 803 - 810:

<p><a href="https://gwensmith.net/the-problem-with-trusting-broken-cisterns/">The Problem With Trusting Broken Cisterns&nbsp;</a></p> <p>A broken <em><strong>cistern</strong></em> has sprung a <em><strong>leak</strong></em> and can't hold water. God is our Living Water.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Jeremiah%202%3A13">Jeremiah 2:13</a></p> <p>“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own&nbsp;cisterns, broken&nbsp;cisterns&nbsp;that cannot hold water.”</p> <p>St. John of the Cross and Broken Cisterns of the soul, we leak out God, we fill up with the Holy Spirit then leak out again and the level of Possession of God by our soul decreases. Our inordinate passions cause this. Our desires for things other than God cause the leak. The desire for the red corvette, the food delicacies, pleasures that are forbidden by the will of God.</p> <p>Result is we lose God literally see, Eli, Phineas and Hophni and the Arc of the Covenant sought by Indiana Jones.</p> <p>See “Lord of the Rings”, the desire for the ring turns the becoming young man into an ugly creature mad with desire.</p> <p>Avoid the logic of a popular Bishop Barron who tells us that the “Polls” show these scandals do not affect the reason the young are leaving the Church, why the Church is bleeding youth, is some other reason than these scandals. These scandals are our history worth remembering. That is why the Holy Spirit gave us the history of Eli, think (ArchBishop) and his sons Phineas, and Hophni ( priests) they are history worth remembering.</p> <p>In the biblical narrative,&nbsp;priests Hophni and Phinehas&nbsp;are criticized for engaging in illicit behavior, such as appropriating the best portion of sacrifices for themselves, and having sinful sexual relations. Eli, the chief priest, was their Father and was indifferent to the sins of his sons.</p> <p>Two responses to Bishop Barron: First, the “POLLS” are not our Teacher, we do not marry secular culture. Jesus Christ