I’ve loved people and forgave them who weren’t lovable and it was hard to forgive. I gave mercy because God loves us all the same. It has always comforted me because God sees my heart.
I can’t believe we are closing in on Day 300! It seems so recent that we were starting and I thought I’d never make it to the end but here we are approaching the home stretch! Praying that we all cross the finish line together! Father Mike makes it easy!😊
Yes Fr. Mike makes it easy! I love listening to him. I have learned so much this year! I am so happy that I have been able to keep up with this daily. I tried the Bible in a year a couple of years ago and did not complete it. I am definitely planning to start January 1 and hopefully do the whole Bible in a year in 2024.!
Yours is the only comment showing up for me besides replies to you. The sort by Newest comments showed people's comments though! I think it's a problem everywhere!
I have been working with the Lord to take my anger from me. I have been angry for so long about things in my family, things in my life, things I have done that cannot be undone. To finally willfully accept that I need to love myself but not in that stupid modern sense but like you said padre, to will good for myself. Mercy, love, grace and joy. To live that grace has been difficult, to accept harder at times. Even after confessions, to feel that God has put it aside but I cannot. The weightlessness I have received from God these last several weeks, is beyond measure, beyond words. These last few weeks have been hard with whats going on in Israel, I was there less than a year ago on Pilgrimage with my wife. To see whats happening to good and innocent people on either side, what terror is doing to peoples perceptions about faith. It racks my heart with sadness. Thank you Fr. Mike for praying for me and all the others doing CIY, I need it. Always praying and thinking of your words and dad jokes. To God all the Glory and Honor forever and ever.
What a word this Day 292. In light of the wars, violence, murder, hatred we are seeing in real time, we are hearing this high call from our Lord. "It is impossible without God's grace." Amen to that, Fr. Mike. We know that with God all things are possible.
Amen to that 🙏🙏🙏 I pray for all the innocent little babies who are murdered everyday😢😢and for all who are involved in carrying out these abortions. Dear Lord come into their hearts as you have done with many and protect the innocent. In Jesus name we pray🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Father Mike for all your teachings! God bless you.❤🙏❤️ The basic principle of keeping peace also goes hand-in-hand with this Commandment: “Blessed are the Peacemakers”. War comes from a desire for revenge, from anger and hatred that causes us to do evil to someone. Instead, the Lord also says, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”. Let us pray for all those who have died in wars. Pray for peace in the world. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on us sinners!🙏❤️🙏❤️
I struggled with loving my enemies or those that hurt us until one day I realized that loving my enemies or those who hurt us does not mean that what they did to us was right. Once I could separate the person from the action I could the love them because they were created by God. I can also only do this with God’s Divine Mercy and Graces. When I struggle doing this I ask Jesus to help me love them. I also find praying for your enemies or those who hurt us helps me to start to love them. Hope that makes sense. Praying for all of you (no you are not my enemies I pray for my friends also lol)
All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”
In these days of war, we pray that everyone would wish for the good of his neighbor and his enemy. Love thy neighbor doesn’t include a list of exemptions.
God bless you Fr. Mike. This challenge is the hardest for me to overcome. I try to do this every day and need God’s help and grace always. I appreciate your help in teaching me through this Catechism and also through the Bible in a Year. You are the best !! ❤
Day 292 The part about where Fr. mentioned about CS Lewis book Mere Christianity was shocking... Loving your enemy does not mean feeling fond of him or telling him he is nice when he is not. But it is to wish that he were not bad and to be cured either in this world or next. *In fact, to wish for his good* CS Lewis had said this asking the question what if the Nazis had tortured my family , how would I look at them.......
The dignity of the human person comes directly from God. All human life is sacred always, everywhere extending to all time for all people. Jesus tells us to love our enemies, which is the most challenging command given to us. Apart from avoiding murder, we must avoid anger (dont feed it), hatred and vengence. We have to love our enemies as we love ourselves. Always wish good for them and love them even if there is nothing lovable about them. This is how God ❤️ loves us still. ❤️ 🙏
Actually, I don’t find it so hard to forgive someone who seemingly sincerely asks for forgiveness. I can even find it in my heart not to question that person’s sincerity. The hardest cases are those who don’t show even the slightest remorse for what they’ve done nor hint at any intention of not repeating their transgressions. For this, God’s grace is truly most essential.
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Human life must be respected because it is sacred.From it's beginning human life involves the creative action of God, and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. It is not lawful for anyone directly to destroy an innocent human being. This is gravely contrary to the dignity of the person and the holiness of the Creator. Jesus expands the commandment to include anger, hatred, and vengeance
I am having to deal with this now. I truly wish and hope that myself and them get beyond this and experience the freedom of forgiveness so we can live again in love. I have hope and I feel it moving in that direction. Slow yes. But it is going in the right direction. Thank you for the study. 🙏❤️
I like how loving our enemies becomes easier when we connect it with the commandment of "Thou shall not kill." It also becomes easier to consider when we remember how Jesus died for the entire world and also forgave his enemies and prayed for their enlightenment. Jesus and God are about love and not hate. Fr. Mike said that being angry doesn't make us bad, but feeding that anger or doing something because of our anger makes us bad, and even sinners because anything done while being angry can become our biggest regrets later on. A great reminder about the danger of anger! C.S. Lewis is right about the example of how he would think about those (N##is) who committed the sin of the Holocaust. He relates it to loving himself and also agrees that it is difficult, but he has to somehow love them as humans. This can be translated loosely as many nations adopting lifetime imprisonment for even murderers instead of a death sentence. That's how it must be. We don't accept that the bad people are good, but we don't act like bad people ourselves by committing a sin of killing even if it seems like justice. God is the creator, and He alone has the right to take a life. Even the lives of those who are criminals. Thank you for this analysis and for making things easier for us, Fr. Mike! I'm praying for you, for the Team Ascension, and for the fellow listeners. God bless
We need to be wise as the the people of old. My father said he did not carry a gun or a knife because he knew if he was angered enough he would use it. Back in his day most people defended themselves with their fists. We need to know our own temperament in order to be able to defend ourselves. If we have a hair-trigger temper caution is advised on the use of weapons. My Dad was a hunter and only killed what he was going to eat. He did not kill for sport. Yet he was a big believer in the right to bear arms. All of us kids had to take a gun safety coarse before we were even allowed to hunt with a shot gun. Restrained is needed before one acts hastily in anger, so that reason can enter and cause one to contemplate all the things that will result from our actions - Good & Bad.❤🙏
St. Pope John Paul II, forgave the person who shot and almost killed him. St. Mary Goretti also, before she died forgave the man who tried to rape her and stabbed her 14 times that led to her death.
Paragraph 2258 says it all. "God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being."
No one should ask for mercy unless they’ve confronted the person in front of them and judged if it is Christ or their foolishness. Father Mike, you need to say it not allude to it you have Christ in front of you and your hand every day incarnate in you and Faith amen. Amen. Amen.
This is what really gets me in the political separation from our time. I am repelled by anger against politicians, even my own anger. Even anger against Trump. Even anger against Biden. Rationally, this political anger has its causes. But the sheer irrational hate shown is not justified by those causes.
The Lord wants us to become Holy, all that is needed is a bit of Good Will.If Jesus sees this little bit of Good Will in the soul He hurries to give Himself to the soul. Nothing can stop Him neither shortcomings nor falls nothing. Jesus is anxious to help that soul, and if it is faithful to this grace from God, it can very soon attain the highest holiness possible for a creature here on earth. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed He gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit - that is the shortest route. - Diary 291❤❤❤
October 19, 2023 Will you please take a moment and pray with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
I was told it was thou shalt not murder. Because the old testament specifies the difference between kill and murder. So when I ordere a wall plaque with the 10 commandments It'll have thou-shalt-not to murder.
October 19, 2023 Let me ask you, have you ever considered listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning? Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
This is truly very hard to understand and accept, especially at this time when we are trying to understand hate in this world. Innocent people including, infants, children, women and elderly were killed, maimed, raped, etc.recently. Aren't we suppose to protect the innocent? Are we suppose to just allow others do what they wish to our family, friends, loved ones, etc? This is a very hard thing for me to understand. It looks like the key word is innocent.
Capital punishment for murderers is the only commandment that God gives in every book of the Torah, starting with Genesis 9:6: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by MAN shall his blood be shed." Numbers 35:33 tells us that blowing off this commandment (from misdirected compassion, for example) actually pollutes the land: "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." We should not be dismissing the Old Testament
We need to pray for the end of capitol punishment, abortion, euthenaisa, and assisted suicide. It is not our job to take away life. God gives us life and he takes it away in His time not ours.
Hi! Just as a hopefully helpful heads up, I don't think comments are showing up in places both videos and community posts. I can only see them in the "sort" by newest comments! Thanks!
Can’t tell a Holocaust survivor to love Hitler. I don’t know what or how they would..but I do know I had to forgive an abusive, alcoholic after34 years..I left.
1)I just got a revelation. Able's blood fell upon the earth; and the earth was made to hear Blood pour out; and therefore, it feels it and drinks it; whether it be of Jesus Christ; or if it be of Able; by the hand of murder. Both were the first man murdered. In the book of Rev it says: God will punish those who destroy the earth. The earth has been the graveyard for murdered people; whose blood cries out; a particular perspective; there are others. 3)In the movie: the Passion of the Christ: Mary digs her fingers into the gravel; and grabs a whole handful. She gave life in Jesus Christ; and therefore, His Life; soaked into her soul; and she had this poetic reaction; because: it was more than poetry; she was reacting because: the earth is going to be redeemed again with God's Holy Fire; when God will once again create a new heaven and a new earth. 4)It is the same way the Purgatorial souls are purified with the Fire of the Blood of Jesus; like a chemical reaction that burns; this time a bleach that burns out the marks of sin upon the souls of man. So, the earth and the Universe/heaven will also have a spirit; and be purified. Only humans have souls; we are made in the Image of God's face. 5)Angels are not made in the Image of God; only humans. That is why Lucifer was jealous; because: we are created in the Image of God; though we do not have wings to fly; and seem like lower than the angels; but we are higher; in having the HIGHER GOOD. Like the song: I believe I can fly. When we are having trials and tribulations; we are actually flying higher; SHOWING THE BLOOD OF JESUS; THE HIGHER GOOD; AND THAT IS THE FACE; THAT TAUNTS THE DEVIL; LIKE THE CLOTH: that which Saint Veronica wiped the FACE of Jesus unto; like it were her own flesh; wiping the FACE of Her Lord; who saves by Trials and Tribulations. Trials and Tribulation is the Higher Good that brings salvation. 6)AND THAT IS WHY MARY GRABBED A HANDFUL; JUST AS SAINT VERONICA HELD ON TO THE CLOTH; REPRESENTING THE GRAVEL; IN MARY'S HANDS. 7)Therefore, when you see the Shroud of Turin; you are then seeing: YOURSELF AS THE CLOTH; OR AS THE GRAVEL: In which the VM was the FIRST to feel; as she was the first to give birth. This time she also gave birth with the earth; as it gave birth to LIFE; when the first time: it gave birth to death. 8)The Rosary: and blessed is the fruit Jesus. Holy Mary Mother of God; PRAY FOR US sinners and in the hour of death; Amen. 9)She grabbed a handful of us; like an eagle holding her spawned eggs; ALL GRAVEL PIECES ARE PRECIOUS TO HER HOLDING POWER. We can fly with Mary; - as depicted in the Book of Rev chapter 12. Amen.
th-cam.com/video/9jFACGz-E0U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DtWMB0kDlvZdJXJ6&t=54 Song: How Great Thou Art. The verses tell; about the creation testifying - how great thou art! Totally matching the gravel in Mary's hands.
th-cam.com/video/bWfIFjFfBYw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=nGmgNI5PzVv2H6yl Eucharistic Procession with Fr Schmitz and grand finale; involving whole Catholic clergy and religious; as well as the congregation of Holy gravel in the hands of Mary.
NY City clip: Fr Mike! My priest just gave me this very clip today; he was excited about it! I responded: I've been telling you for a very long time! -- that I found this Catechism channel: from a priest; - who is so, life changing or everyone! I said: We love Fr Mike; but really; I said those words: instead, JUST a tad differently; using both inclusive and exclusive; catching myself. Always maintaining myself in Isaiah 54.
Not one of the Saints by name ever confronted the people murdering them I saying where is Christ and what you’re doing to me a sinner. Peter like us crows in the courtyard. And yet Jesus stands in front of us god son, Holy Spirit. No one sees God unless they see Christ.
Before CS Lewis was GK Chesterton but GK didn't have the atrocities of WWII in his day to give example. Not that is was any good, the war, it did give example of how we should live in all cultures avoiding the innocent killing and genocide. It is a good question could one forgive the Nazi's if the had killed a member of your family or a good friend; could one forgive such? I give you what GK and CS both had knowledge of and that's the forgiveness Jesus offered on the Cross, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." He did not say, "Father forgive them for I cannot." But what if He did mean that? Then we'd have every aspect to resent the Jew but we don't. It shouldn't be can we forgive Nazis for killing our loved one but can we forgive those who killed our Lord? Certainly His Resurrection gives us a chance to forgive them but I give you something greater than the Resurrection the knowledge that it was our own sins that nailed Christ to the Tree. It's as if we held the hammer that struck the nails. So all of us are guilty of crucifying Jesus. If we are all guilty how can we hold accountable one group of people? Did He not died and rise for their sins as well? Furthermore, the Jews are the field of evangelism and evangelism is better by action but greater by words of action. If you do a good deed for a Jew they will believe they are entitled but if you serve the deed with the Gospel they will have to maul it over in their mind. Medication without water causes one to choke but together they bring aid to the ailment; betterment to the sick and dying. Sometimes interveinous is the better but water is still involved. Now at this time of Israel's distress and interveinous approach is applicable not only to the Jew but the Palestinian. Now is the time to bring about conversion. There is a gap between these peoples: Let us fill that Gap with an olive branch in our beak.
Flee this Anti-Church. Have you ever read the next 5 verses? John 3:16 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Moving on to the Gospel of Jesus Christ: How many lies have you told in your life? Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you? Have you ever used God's holy name to curse, would you do that with your mother's name? Jusus said: Matthew 5:28 *_"but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."_* Have you ever done that? Only Jesus Christ lived a life worthy of Heaven. Substituting our sinful life for his is the only way to enter Heaven. 1. We attempt to present our own righteousness to God the father on Judgment Day? *(We don't have any righteousness. Answer the questions in the above, how many lies have you told in your life?)* 2. Jesus has kindly offered to give us his righteousness as a free gift making us perfect and impeccable in the sight of his father. Ensuring a smooth transition on Judgement Day. (Choose this option.) Romans 1:18-21 LSB - 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559 A sola scriptura question...... If the early church believed in sola scriptura, why do the creeds of the early church always say " we believe in the holy catholic church" and not " we believe in Holy Scripture"? Use apologetics skills in your answer, not polemics.
Another sola scriptura question. If Jesus intended for Christianity to be exclusively a "religion of the book", why did he wait 1400 years before showing someone how to build a printing press ?
Blessings to all reaching CIY day 292,10/18/24🙏🙏🙏
This is a challenging commandment, especially in these times, Jesus help us !!! ❤🙏😢
Amen
I’ve loved people and forgave them who weren’t lovable and it was hard to forgive. I gave mercy because God loves us all the same. It has always comforted me because God sees my heart.
Prayers for all of my CIY family here and in the whole world...
Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
292 we love you father Mike ❤
I can’t believe we are closing in on Day 300! It seems so recent that we were starting and I thought I’d never make it to the end but here we are approaching the home stretch! Praying that we all cross the finish line together! Father Mike makes it easy!😊
Wow! You’re comment almost startled me!😂 Crazy that we’re about a week from Day 300!🤯
Yes Fr. Mike makes it easy! I love listening to him. I have learned so much this year! I am so happy that I have been able to keep up with this daily. I tried the Bible in a year a couple of years ago and did not complete it. I am definitely planning to start January 1 and hopefully do the whole Bible in a year in 2024.!
Yours is the only comment showing up for me besides replies to you. The sort by Newest comments showed people's comments though! I think it's a problem everywhere!
@@patfornkohl8082you won't regret it. I'll be praying for you!
AMEN!!!!!
I have been working with the Lord to take my anger from me. I have been angry for so long about things in my family, things in my life, things I have done that cannot be undone. To finally willfully accept that I need to love myself but not in that stupid modern sense but like you said padre, to will good for myself. Mercy, love, grace and joy. To live that grace has been difficult, to accept harder at times. Even after confessions, to feel that God has put it aside but I cannot. The weightlessness I have received from God these last several weeks, is beyond measure, beyond words. These last few weeks have been hard with whats going on in Israel, I was there less than a year ago on Pilgrimage with my wife. To see whats happening to good and innocent people on either side, what terror is doing to peoples perceptions about faith. It racks my heart with sadness. Thank you Fr. Mike for praying for me and all the others doing CIY, I need it. Always praying and thinking of your words and dad jokes. To God all the Glory and Honor forever and ever.
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Praying for you all, God bless everyone throughout the world.Amen❤
Hello everyone & Happy Day 292!🙏😊
🙋♀ Elizabeth & All 😊Day 292 ❤🙏
Thank you Father Mike. Praying for you and all of us.
What a word this Day 292. In light of the wars, violence, murder, hatred we are seeing in real time, we are hearing this high call from our Lord.
"It is impossible without God's grace." Amen to that, Fr. Mike. We know that with God all things are possible.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼, praying to end abortion and those who commit to have a change of heart.
Amen to that 🙏🙏🙏 I pray for all the innocent little babies who are murdered everyday😢😢and for all who are involved in carrying out these abortions. Dear Lord come into their hearts as you have done with many and protect the innocent. In Jesus name we pray🙏🙏🙏
Day 292...Good afternoon Fr.Mike...Thankyou for your time...Have learned a lot from all the lessons..Praying for you and all in the Ascension team 🙏
How many people praying for Israel and the people of Gaza are also praying for the conversion of Hamas souls?
I do!🙏 I believe that’s the only way for there to be peace.
I pray for peace . It is only with the Lords intercession that all wars will cease ❤
@@annettegrant6791 That will happen when He returns and puts an end to all this nonsense.
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Loving the Un-Lovable - is challenging but Yes I will. Thanks Fr. for this, to be more like Jesus.
Praise you lord Jesus Christ ❤❤❤Amen prayers Father Mike Amen
Ephesians:4 - 32 And be kind and merciful to one another,
forgiving one another, just as God has forgive you in Christ
the isrealis and arabs and palestinians need to listen to your podcast lecture today father mike
I think in the current conflict, Hamas murdered 1300+ people, Israel is fighting a just war
Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏🏻 ❤️🙏
I need that Grace. Praying for God’s Grace for Fr. Mike, for all in CIY , and for myself 🛐
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Dear Lord Jesus, grant us the grace to forgive. Amen. Praying for Father Mike and the CIY Family. God's mercy be upon us.
Thank you Father Mike for all your teachings! God bless you.❤🙏❤️
The basic principle of keeping peace also goes hand-in-hand with this Commandment: “Blessed are the Peacemakers”. War comes from a desire for revenge, from anger and hatred that causes us to do evil to someone. Instead, the Lord also says, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”. Let us pray for all those who have died in wars. Pray for peace in the world. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on us sinners!🙏❤️🙏❤️
"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me."
Beautifully stated!❤
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world. Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary pray for us sinners ✝️🙏♥️
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Praying for you all.. God bless .. ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I struggled with loving my enemies or those that hurt us until one day I realized that loving my enemies or those who hurt us does not mean that what they did to us was right. Once I could separate the person from the action I could the love them because they were created by God. I can also only do this with God’s Divine Mercy and Graces. When I struggle doing this I ask Jesus to help me love them. I also find praying for your enemies or those who hurt us helps me to start to love them. Hope that makes sense. Praying for all of you (no you are not my enemies I pray for my friends also lol)
All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”
My momma used to say, "You don't have to like them, but you do have to love them." This is still a hatd lesson to learn.
Thank you Father. … “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis Book 3, Chapter 7.
Thank you Father..i pray that peace will come to those afflicted by war .
God bless you and all those listening. ❤
In these days of war, we pray that everyone would wish for the good of his neighbor and his enemy. Love thy neighbor doesn’t include a list of exemptions.
“Keep far from a false charge, and do not slay the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.”
Exodus 23:7
God bless you Fr. Mike. This challenge is the hardest for me to overcome. I try to do this every day and need God’s help and grace always. I appreciate your help in teaching me through this Catechism and also through the Bible in a Year. You are the best !! ❤
Thank you FatherMike
May God bless you always 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Praise to you God and Jesus Christ🙏❤🕊😇
Thank you Father
Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team, for all my CIY brothers and sisters. God bless ❤🙏
God Bless you also ❤🙏
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Day 292
The part about where Fr. mentioned about CS Lewis book Mere Christianity was shocking...
Loving your enemy does not mean feeling fond of him or telling him he is nice when he is not. But it is to wish that he were not bad and to be cured either in this world or next.
*In fact, to wish for his good*
CS Lewis had said this asking the question what if the Nazis had tortured my family , how would I look at them.......
We are determined to finish. Today is June 1st, day 292. Goal- by the end of summer, we will finish the Catechism!
Thank you, Lord
To love our enemies, soooooo difficult in today's world. Help us Lord!
I am there(already). I am seeking GOD’s mercy.
Thank you Father Mike.
The dignity of the human person comes directly from God. All human life is sacred always, everywhere extending to all time for all people.
Jesus tells us to love our enemies, which is the most challenging command given to us. Apart from avoiding murder, we must avoid anger (dont feed it), hatred and vengence. We have to love our enemies as we love ourselves. Always wish good for them and love them even if there is nothing lovable about them. This is how God ❤️ loves us still. ❤️ 🙏
Amen
Jesus said to love our enemies! ❤
I don’t have to love my X-Husband. I just had to forgive. Abusive and alcoholic…isn’t love to me.
I agree! 🙏
How's this for a timely message? Oh my. And a difficult one. We love you Fr. Mike!
God bless Fr. Mike!
Actually, I don’t find it so hard to forgive someone who seemingly sincerely asks for forgiveness. I can even find it in my heart not to question that person’s sincerity. The hardest cases are those who don’t show even the slightest remorse for what they’ve done nor hint at any intention of not repeating their transgressions. For this, God’s grace is truly most essential.
I know this is Catholic podcast but... It's oddly interesting how we get into these commandments during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
DaY 292,18-ApriL-2024
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HaPpy Thursday.
Father Mike,guaPo, my brother in Christ, I am
Praying 🙏 for you!
Prayers Fr. Mike!
Yes! The comments weren't working on TH-cam today, at least for me, and only showed up if I sorted by "newest first", and I asked for the intercession of Blessed Carlo Actuis (saintly gamer and website designer) to our Lord Jesus Christ for help!
Being that Blessed Carlo Acutis was a gamer and website designer (known for documenting Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions cataloguing them onto a website which he created before passing from leukemia at age 15), I asked for his intercession to our Lord Jesus for help and comments are working again!
God bless you all and hope you have a light-filled day! I love you Fr. Mike! And I love you all! Praying for you. Please pray for me! =)
Human life must be respected because it is sacred.From it's beginning human life involves the creative action of God, and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. It is not lawful for anyone directly to destroy an innocent human being. This is gravely contrary to the dignity of the person and the holiness of the Creator. Jesus expands the commandment to include anger, hatred, and vengeance
Bless them, change me words to live by from Father Dave, Amen and God Blesspray🙏📿🙏
I am having to deal with this now. I truly wish and hope that myself and them get beyond this and experience the freedom of forgiveness so we can live again in love. I have hope and I feel it moving in that direction. Slow yes. But it is going in the right direction.
Thank you for the study. 🙏❤️
Same for me as of the last 2.5 months. 🙏
Thanks!
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I like how loving our enemies becomes easier when we connect it with the commandment of "Thou shall not kill." It also becomes easier to consider when we remember how Jesus died for the entire world and also forgave his enemies and prayed for their enlightenment. Jesus and God are about love and not hate. Fr. Mike said that being angry doesn't make us bad, but feeding that anger or doing something because of our anger makes us bad, and even sinners because anything done while being angry can become our biggest regrets later on. A great reminder about the danger of anger! C.S. Lewis is right about the example of how he would think about those (N##is) who committed the sin of the Holocaust. He relates it to loving himself and also agrees that it is difficult, but he has to somehow love them as humans. This can be translated loosely as many nations adopting lifetime imprisonment for even murderers instead of a death sentence. That's how it must be. We don't accept that the bad people are good, but we don't act like bad people ourselves by committing a sin of killing even if it seems like justice. God is the creator, and He alone has the right to take a life. Even the lives of those who are criminals. Thank you for this analysis and for making things easier for us, Fr. Mike! I'm praying for you, for the Team Ascension, and for the fellow listeners. God bless
We need to be wise as the the people of old. My father said he did not carry a gun or a knife because he knew if he was angered enough he would use it. Back in his day most people defended themselves with their fists. We need to know our own temperament in order to be able to defend ourselves. If we have a hair-trigger temper caution is advised on the use of weapons. My Dad was a hunter and only killed what he was going to eat. He did not kill for sport. Yet he was a big believer in the right to bear arms. All of us kids had to take a gun safety coarse before we were even allowed to hunt with a shot gun. Restrained is needed before one acts hastily in anger, so that reason can enter and cause one to contemplate all the things that will result from our actions - Good & Bad.❤🙏
I like Father Schmitz' reference to "The Sound of Music". "Let's start from the very beginning." :)
Cool, now I realized it:)
St. Pope John Paul II, forgave the person who shot and almost killed him. St. Mary Goretti also, before she died forgave the man who tried to rape her and stabbed her 14 times that led to her death.
Paragraph 2258 says it all. "God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being."
Thank you Amen
No one should ask for mercy unless they’ve confronted the person in front of them and judged if it is Christ or their foolishness. Father Mike, you need to say it not allude to it you have Christ in front of you and your hand every day incarnate in you and Faith amen. Amen. Amen.
This is what really gets me in the political separation from our time.
I am repelled by anger against politicians, even my own anger. Even anger against Trump. Even anger against Biden. Rationally, this political anger has its causes. But the sheer irrational hate shown is not justified by those causes.
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The Lord wants us to become Holy, all that is needed is a bit of Good Will.If Jesus sees this little bit of Good Will in the soul He hurries to give Himself to the soul. Nothing can stop Him neither shortcomings nor falls nothing. Jesus is anxious to help that soul, and if it is faithful to this grace from God, it can very soon attain the highest holiness possible for a creature here on earth. God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed He gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit - that is the shortest route.
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Amen 🙏.
October 19, 2023
Will you please take a moment and pray with me?
According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory:
Eternal Father,
I offer You the most precious blood
of thy Divine Son, Jesus,
in union with the Masses said
throughout the world today,
for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory,
for sinners everywhere,
for sinners in the universal Church,
for those in my own home,
and in my family. Amen.
In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
Day 292. 🙏🙏🙏
I was told it was thou shalt not murder. Because the old testament specifies the difference between kill and murder.
So when I ordere a wall plaque with the 10 commandments It'll have thou-shalt-not to murder.
I agree
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October 19, 2023
Let me ask you, have you ever considered listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning?
Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
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With the bombing of the hospital in Gaza, this message is really timely.
Who bombed it?
This is truly very hard to understand and accept, especially at this time when we are trying to understand hate in this world. Innocent people including, infants, children, women and elderly were killed, maimed, raped, etc.recently. Aren't we suppose to protect the innocent? Are we suppose to just allow others do what they wish to our family, friends, loved ones, etc? This is a very hard thing for me to understand. It looks like the key word is innocent.
Thought provoking as the election in 2024 approaches and so many abortion initiatives on the ballots. Respect Human Life. Praying for all. God Bless.
Capital punishment for murderers is the only commandment that God gives in every book of the Torah, starting with Genesis 9:6:
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by MAN shall his blood be shed." Numbers 35:33 tells us that blowing off this commandment (from misdirected compassion, for example) actually pollutes the land: "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it."
We should not be dismissing the Old Testament
We need to pray for the end of capitol punishment, abortion, euthenaisa, and assisted suicide. It is not our job to take away life. God gives us life and he takes it away in His time not ours.
Gossiping also violates the 5th Commandment.
Hi! Just as a hopefully helpful heads up, I don't think comments are showing up in places both videos and community posts. I can only see them in the "sort" by newest comments! Thanks!
Can’t tell a Holocaust survivor to love Hitler. I don’t know what or how they would..but I do know I had to forgive an abusive, alcoholic after34 years..I left.
Father, please tell me what your stance is on The Death Penalty?
In light of recent events in Israel, how should the Israelis' act/react to the acts of murder and violence purpetrated on them?
Just war?
@@meihui7767 I presume you mean 'a just war' rather than 'only a war'?
I haven't found in the catechism who can expose the blessed sacrament. Is it only a priest or a deacon?
Wait... Since when is the death penalty ever just?
In the Bible
1)I just got a revelation. Able's blood fell upon the earth; and the earth was made to hear Blood pour out; and therefore, it feels it and drinks it; whether it be of Jesus Christ; or if it be of Able; by the hand of murder. Both were the first man murdered.
In the book of Rev it says: God will punish those who destroy the earth. The earth has been the graveyard for murdered people; whose blood cries out; a particular perspective; there are others.
3)In the movie: the Passion of the Christ: Mary digs her fingers into the gravel; and grabs a whole handful. She gave life in Jesus Christ; and therefore, His Life; soaked into her soul; and she had this poetic reaction; because: it was more than poetry; she was reacting because: the earth is going to be redeemed again with God's Holy Fire; when God will once again create a new heaven and a new earth.
4)It is the same way the Purgatorial souls are purified with the Fire of the Blood of Jesus; like a chemical reaction that burns; this time a bleach that burns out the marks of sin upon the souls of man. So, the earth and the Universe/heaven will also have a spirit; and be purified. Only humans have souls; we are made in the Image of God's face.
5)Angels are not made in the Image of God; only humans. That is why Lucifer was jealous; because: we are created in the Image of God; though we do not have wings to fly; and seem like lower than the angels; but we are higher; in having the HIGHER GOOD. Like the song: I believe I can fly. When we are having trials and tribulations; we are actually flying higher; SHOWING THE BLOOD OF JESUS; THE HIGHER GOOD; AND THAT IS THE FACE; THAT TAUNTS THE DEVIL; LIKE THE CLOTH: that which Saint Veronica wiped the FACE of Jesus unto; like it were her own flesh; wiping the FACE of Her Lord; who saves by Trials and Tribulations.
Trials and Tribulation is the Higher Good that brings salvation.
6)AND THAT IS WHY MARY GRABBED A HANDFUL; JUST AS SAINT VERONICA HELD ON TO THE CLOTH; REPRESENTING THE GRAVEL; IN MARY'S HANDS.
7)Therefore, when you see the Shroud of Turin; you are then seeing: YOURSELF AS THE CLOTH; OR AS THE GRAVEL: In which the VM was the FIRST to feel; as she was the first to give birth. This time she also gave birth with the earth; as it gave birth to LIFE; when the first time: it gave birth to death.
8)The Rosary: and blessed is the fruit Jesus. Holy Mary Mother of God; PRAY FOR US sinners and in the hour of death; Amen.
9)She grabbed a handful of us; like an eagle holding her spawned eggs; ALL GRAVEL PIECES ARE PRECIOUS TO HER HOLDING POWER. We can fly with Mary; - as depicted in the Book of Rev chapter 12. Amen.
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Song: How Great Thou Art.
The verses tell; about the creation testifying - how great thou art! Totally matching the gravel in Mary's hands.
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Eucharistic Procession with Fr Schmitz and grand finale; involving whole Catholic clergy and religious; as well as the congregation of Holy gravel in the hands of Mary.
That was a beautiful reflection! 🙌
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NY City clip:
Fr Mike!
My priest just gave me this very clip today; he was excited about it! I responded: I've been telling you for a very long time! -- that I found this Catechism channel: from a priest; - who is so, life changing or everyone!
I said: We love Fr Mike; but really; I said those words: instead, JUST a tad differently; using both inclusive and exclusive; catching myself. Always maintaining myself in Isaiah 54.
What would you do in Christ
Not one of the Saints by name ever confronted the people murdering them I saying where is Christ and what you’re doing to me a sinner. Peter like us crows in the courtyard. And yet Jesus stands in front of us god son, Holy Spirit. No one sees God unless they see Christ.
Before CS Lewis was GK Chesterton but GK didn't have the atrocities of WWII in his day to give example. Not that is was any good, the war, it did give example of how we should live in all cultures avoiding the innocent killing and genocide. It is a good question could one forgive the Nazi's if the had killed a member of your family or a good friend; could one forgive such? I give you what GK and CS both had knowledge of and that's the forgiveness Jesus offered on the Cross, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." He did not say, "Father forgive them for I cannot." But what if He did mean that? Then we'd have every aspect to resent the Jew but we don't. It shouldn't be can we forgive Nazis for killing our loved one but can we forgive those who killed our Lord? Certainly His Resurrection gives us a chance to forgive them but I give you something greater than the Resurrection the knowledge that it was our own sins that nailed Christ to the Tree. It's as if we held the hammer that struck the nails. So all of us are guilty of crucifying Jesus. If we are all guilty how can we hold accountable one group of people? Did He not died and rise for their sins as well? Furthermore, the Jews are the field of evangelism and evangelism is better by action but greater by words of action. If you do a good deed for a Jew they will believe they are entitled but if you serve the deed with the Gospel they will have to maul it over in their mind. Medication without water causes one to choke but together they bring aid to the ailment; betterment to the sick and dying. Sometimes interveinous is the better but water is still involved. Now at this time of Israel's distress and interveinous approach is applicable not only to the Jew but the Palestinian. Now is the time to bring about conversion. There is a gap between these peoples: Let us fill that Gap with an olive branch in our beak.
Flee this Anti-Church.
Have you ever read the next 5 verses?
John 3:16
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Moving on to the Gospel of Jesus Christ:
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Have you ever used God's holy name to curse, would you do that with your mother's name?
Jusus said:
Matthew 5:28
*_"but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."_*
Have you ever done that?
Only Jesus Christ lived a life worthy of Heaven. Substituting our sinful life for his is the only way to enter Heaven.
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We attempt to present our own righteousness to God the father on Judgment Day?
*(We don't have any righteousness. Answer the questions in the above, how many lies have you told in your life?)*
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Jesus has kindly offered to give us his righteousness as a free gift making us perfect and impeccable in the sight of his father. Ensuring a smooth transition on Judgement Day.
(Choose this option.)
Romans 1:18-21 LSB -
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559lol this spam again? LoL satan does wish to persecute Christ's Church
What's your point?
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A sola scriptura question......
If the early church believed in sola scriptura, why do the creeds of the early church always say " we believe in the holy catholic church" and not " we believe in Holy Scripture"?
Use apologetics skills in your answer, not polemics.
Another sola scriptura question.
If Jesus intended for Christianity to be exclusively a "religion of the book", why did he wait 1400 years before showing someone how to build a printing press ?
Amen
Thanks Fr Mike. Praying for you, and all here. May God Bless. Claire.
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