The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Lesson in Human Flourishing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2022
- Today Fr. Mike unpacks the three Transcendentals; Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, and why and how our hearts can be misled by emotion and feelings at times which distorts these fundamental realities.
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As a lukewarm lifelong Catholic I wholly agree. I've been bitten by the Holy Ghost within the last year and my life is top to bottom changed. I very rarely listen to music anymore just for the reason of guarding my soul. It's amazing to me how all the changes in my life have been seemingly effortless. I was always a bit of a pig in my thoughts, never honored the Sabbath (other than Mass), indulged in all the filth of the internet and never thought about guarding my soul from anything. Now, I pray about 5 hours a day, fast daily and 100% on Friday, no work on Sunday very little media and I've never been more at peace even though I have been recently given a few crosses to bear. I adore Thee Most Holy Lord Jesus Christ!
Wow what a battle you got there bro
@@andrewbangs9073 it's actually all been very easy, so far. I pray that when I am put to the test, by His mercy, I will not fail Him.
Do you possibly have a vocation Matt?
Love C.S.Lewis. This is so true. We shape our conscience through what we spend time with. Thanks for this video. God used this ministry to help me find my way home to the Church. I was baptized Saturday. Thank you everyone at Ascension, for this and Bible in a Year. 💗
Welcome home! ♥️
@@elizabetharr8551 thank you!❤️ Soo happy 😊
God bless you. Congratulations!
@@ellenrussell8005 thank you❤️ God bless!
Welcome home!!! ❤️🙏🏽
"in this day and age we don't think super clearly, but we feel so strongly", this is exactly what I'm struggling with at the moment.
Father Mike, you make me think deeper about not just Christ but also my own self. Thank you for what you do. You are truly a man of God. God Bless.
Lord let me discern the truth in a world that has increasingly became distorted seek only goodness with an informed conscience and to know what if false when I see it
Thank you Fr Mike. I just said a Hail Mary for you. Hope everyone who sees this video say a Hail Mary to protect this holy priest.
So TRUE!!! We need to discern everything in this world. Evil can disguise itself as good, we always need to be on guard
Interested to hear how this video pertains to something like aa and 12 step groups.
Father Mike, I'd say you need a raise, but you've got the best retirement plan in all of the land! Thanks for your efforts in bringing us all along! I'll continue to pray for your Fortitude!
I love your enthusiasm about Christ!!!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!
✝️🙏🕊✝️🙏🕊✝️
Great take. Deleted social media for this exact reason. I’m done fighting the current by surrounding myself with depravity and expecting goodness from it. Not worth it and never was
Yep! Decade ago that is why I got rid of cable. Why was I inviting that depravity into my home?
Please pray for me Ascension and Fr Mike. I started leading a Bible study for the first time and I’m kinda nervous (public speaking isn’t my thing lol)
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Proverbs 4:23.
Psalm 101:3 "I will set no worthless thing before my eyes..." Excellent teaching! Yes, Fr. Mike! We must guard our hearts and minds. Many scriptures instruct us to do this.
Ephesians 4: 2-5 With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit-just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call- one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
“Watch, what you watch. Be careful what you listen to.”
Reading CS Lewis’ amazing book The Screwtape Letters is truly an eye opener to how the Devil messes with our minds. There is so much in our world today that can look harmless. Our intellect tells us we can sift out the bad and ignored it BUT we are human… what we feed our senses with - eyes, ears, mouth, touch and smell if experienced often enough can soon become part of our hearts and minds. Good or bad. We need to watch out for our human PRIDE. As they say… Pride comes before the fall…. Thank you Fr Mike!!! I read The Screwtape Letters many years ago… I am definitely going to read it again, especially during these confusing and hard times. God Bless you and (‘Saint’) C S Lewis 😉
How can we discern when we're being prideful when we're new to the faith and not used to discerning these things?
God bless everyone 999 trillion times: Truth, Goodness and Beauty is the most genius philosophy of all time!!!
I needed this message today. Feeling disillusioned by mirages. I believe in the purity of truth and goodness, not superficial entrancement. Thank you, Father Mike. We need to discerning.
You know when God 🙏 is with you., Ask God to come into your heart
Jesus I love you...repeat it.
Thank you for your message of encouragement. Please pray for me living with lupus and heart disease has it’s ups and downs. I’m in a lot of pain swollen joints, fevers out of nowhere and fatigue are just a few, because of my condition I declined the vaccine, and was fired over my decision. I was denied my medical/religious exemption from Forsyth hospital. Since than I’ve been struggling to provide for myself and my two autistic children. Every month is a struggle. My husband passed away three years ago, so I’m all alone. I have no family nor friends. My situation already has me down, I’m in constant fear we are going to end up on the streets. I’m so embarrassed because of my situation. I have no family nor friends to help me, I have been mocked and laughed at over my circumstances, but I have nothing but Faith that God will provide for me and my children.
Watch the documentary called Fork Over Knives on TH-cam or Netflix. It might help you with lupus and heart disease. Wishing you the best 💛
If you haven't already, please reach out to your local churches and be at peace telling them your situation and asking for help. That also includes non Catholic Christians as well! The Body of Christ is here for you and yours because your part of our family, and many of us are happy to help once we know what's needed.
If you have done this before and been discouraged or turned down, I am sorry, but please keep moving forward in that pursuit by being living prayer in action. None of us are meant to shoulder our (over) burdens alone! God WILL provide but you must seek it in faith and endurance. I have faith in Him through you and will pray for you right now!
In Christ,
Andrew
Praying for you Mousey ❤
Praying for you and for us all AMEN
May the Lord be your strength and guide.
Thanks, Father! That was Truth, Good and Beautiful, Love and Prayers from Fiji
"For when understanding, unclouded by passion, acts freely and clearly, it is able to detect the truth and to penetrate into the evil which is hidden under a fair appearance and into the good which is veiled by a semblance of evil" (Spiritual combat - Lorenzo Scupoli).
I started to watch my eye and ear gates going on a year & I never felt so much peace since consuming more if the Word instead. Thank You Lord!
Wowww. When he said, "I may know with my intellect that this (show, book, etc) isn't good, but I'm allowing myself to love that which is not worth my heart." So relatable. It reminds me of when my aunt said, "Everything either helps your salvation or it hinders it." So true in all circumstances. Even the catechism speaks on how grace can be granted by simply using objects according their proper use
YES!!!! We need to surround myself with things that are truly good and holy and beautiful.
YOU ARE A RARE GIFT Father Mike! I am so fortunate that I literally stumbled upon You. All of your messages have made me think! Made me better!
Thank you Fr.Mike!!!
i love you brother
My heart aches for forgiveness from God
Love the beautiful.. choose the good!! Thanks Fr Mike!! God Bless!!
This is so true. We are in need of guidance like this. Thanks for your teachings. So good. We do need to discern.
Hi Fr. Mike, excellent exposition. I have been studying a lot about the heart, so please allow me to share it. The body-soul unity may be drawn out further. According to the Catechism (and others), there is also the highest part of the soul, which may be called the spirit (also, the nous, in Greek). It is this aspect of ourselves that we must place into the heart, once purified of passions through asceticism and the sacraments, whereby we “see God” and become like Christ (i.e. deified). Prayer of the heart is the unceasing or self-acting prayer of the Holy Spirit within us. This is where we can and do experience God as an ever-living reality; indeed, as our very life.
God bless, thanks so much. 😊☦
Thank you, Fr. Mike! Amen! An especially important message coming out of Lent, the battle wages on! God bless everyone!
Thank you Fr. Mike .I gave up popular Metal/ Rock and the bar scene and hav’t looked back. Coffee is my new drink of choice. So your words ring true to my ears. Thank u Fr ✝️+☕️
@@jayamburn1959 whats up. God bless!
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Im good. Im not in chat to meet people but hey thanks for being friendly bye✌🏼
JESUS, MARY, I LOVE YOU SAVE SOULS!
Thank you Father Mike.
Thanks Father if you read this please pray for me. My Heart often strays from truth and my head has no will power to guide it back to thé straight and narrow and lead it in the true direction.
Amen Beautiful FR Mike Thank you God-bless you
Beautiful! Thank you Fr Mike for this lovely video. We need to be constantly reminded that our intellect and hearts must always be guided by truth, beauty & goodness. God bless you 🙏
I absolutely love you. It’s so true when I want to share my faith. Thank you
It's not a dump vedio. You said something very beautiful. Love your vedios. May God bless you to help us. Thank God for you.
Really wonderful. Fr Mike is always excellent, but this was particularly good. Happy Easter, everyone.
Thank You Dear LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR KING, 🙏✝️🕊️❣️💯
Father Mike THANKYOU "Surrender of the heart" I LOVE This!!! It is in my understanding dieing to self for, often times we give our hearts and desires over to things that make us feel good or help us escape reality but, this only leaves us empty in the end. Surrender of the heart to JESUS creates in me a new heart a heart for GOD Alone. TRUE LOVE That is ETERNAL REAL That is JESUS He is LOVE✨✝️❣️❣️❣️. There is all kinds of other things but that love proves often fake and empty at least from my experience. Working for a degree as Mother Angelica said, I can't remember the exact quote but, we are working to get a degree we only get after we die "To be a Saint"....
Yeah to get the "St." title before our names. That is the real deal.
VERY VERY VERY WELL EXPLAINED Father !!! Thank you!!! 🙏🌈
Not a Downer, but truly Inspirational...blessing Fr. Mike!
Loved the holistic way you looked at having faith as it being in your intellect but also your heart and your soul. I know I have faith in God due to my intellect but I don't seem to have that faith in my heart and soul. There's a hardness in my heart and soul from all the bad things that have happened to me and from praying to God I'm sure that's the reason why I don't have a very firm and true faith in God. I need healing and help from God. Maybe many other people can relate to your heart going hard from trauma. I guess this is just my cross to bear but I do have hope in God that one day he'll help me let go of this coldness inside me. I won't give up.
What a great message! So much truth. Thank you Father!
Awesome description, Fr. Mike! Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Father, you do not know me but pretty soon you'll hear of me. St. Marys church in Bridgepirt here will tell the news you wait to hear. I love you. I love you.
Write one Preaching of mine everyday and record and upload on youtube and share to all your contacts and send on all social media. You will be blessed from day 3
Thank you, Father. God bless you, the team, and your families to become Saints. 😊🙏🏻❤
Amazing thank you father Mike
Father, it's funny I fell upon this video by happenstance after writing the following today in my journal:
Okay there's kind of been a shift in the way I'm seeing things. In the faith it is wise to discern first and grow in the paths you see as good for your relationship with God. Water the things that nourish your soul and cut down or let dry the things that cut at the goodness of your heart. I'm starting to see a shift where things don't have to be spectacular at the start. To commit and be dedicated to something that merely feels so good but doesn't speak to the heart must be questioned and met with extreme caution because committing yourself to an overwhelming sense of happiness for a fleeting reward as time and commitment progress is a path of or a path toward sin and hatred.
Simply in the music I listen to. Megan gave me the idea to cut out secular music last week and I've been listening to Christian worship instead. It started out as alright, not that good not that bad. Songs that would've repulsed me a year ago now start to have a place in my heart because it's not simply for the way the bass hits. I hear the words and the tone of the music that gives me a message. It's a tool that keeps me uplifted to have a joyful relationship with God and to praise his name. It fuels my soul and my heart and isn't a bandage to my emotions.
In a similar way I see a way to begin to navigate my interactions, works, and leisure.
I am beginning to see that it can pay off to take things slow with questions and observance and let the reward build which is commonly much stronger of a support toward building a powerful relationship with our creator and the ones around us.
He's breaking the chains of my sins in a lifelong battle toward living gracefully in His will!
That's why I can't give up on my Catholic faith
I walked away for a while to go to another denomination but thank God about 16 years ago he brought me back into a area where I had nothing but Catholic churches to go to and I was coming home Catholic thank God I ran home. After you don't a word of God daily day and night night and day it's impounded it's in betted in my head and in my mind and in my soul
Fr. Mike, we can always feed ourselves your videos and be reminded what is the most important. Thank you. 🙏🏻
This video fed my cynicism, His word cuts my heart, I want to withdraw not unlike a hermit.
I think I've spent enough time in His word to "know" what I must do, but like you said, my heart is not with it; it's still caught up in the world and those I rub shoulders with.......
I love CS Lewus too. He explains complicated things so clearly. I can't speak highly enough of him. Hope to see him, Warny, Joy and all his family in heaven one day. Thank you for this Father. You explain complicated things clearly too. May God bless you abundantly 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Fr Mike for telling us about CS Lewis. We should be on guard and discern our every action to seek what is good and beauty. I never thought of leading my heart by using the "Three Transendentals before. " God bless you and your ministry.
Thank you Fr Mike 🌟
Always be strong in faith, and always be vigilant, so that we can be safe from the snares of the devil.
Invoke your Guardian Angel he will enlighten and guide you.
~St Padro Pio
Our life must be an Advent, a vigilant awaiting for the final coming of Jesus Christ🌻
~St John Paul II
Great words of wisdom Father! Thank you!
Thank you Fr Mike. I'm debating if I need to give up the only excersice that I love. I'm over weight and the only excersice that I enjoy is Zumba but the instructors and some of the music are Inappropriate I just joined the gym for that class but I'm not sure about it. 🙄🤷🏻🙏🏼💕
Dear Lord, Help! ABBA Father, I desire my heart and intellect to follow the One True God. “ Jesus, I trust in You!”
Surrender to Him and let His love flow - the good will come 🙏🏼
Thank you Fr Mike, God bless you, your ministry and your priesthood
I'm totally on guard with my heart bc for 20+ years, I wasn't, and still paying the price. So happy to hear these words of *leading* the heart to what's true, good, and beautiful. Thank you, you godly man! Praying for your spiritual protection.
Excellent! Thank you Father Mike. I needed to hear this. God bless.
"beginning to love things that aren't worth my heart"
Fr. Thank you 😇
No Fr. Mike, I needed to hear this message. Not a downer at all, no worries
Thank you, Fr. Mike…for speaking our Blessed Trinity’s Truth even when it’s tough!!!
May God continue to bless you!!! 🙏💕🙏
Wounderful video!!! Thank you, Father Mike!!! God bless you!!!
So so important! Thank you Fr Mike! Precisely because our hearts lead us so much these days… we have to keep them pure! God bless you!
Telling me what I didn't know I needed to hear, as usual. Thanks!
God bless you Fr. Mike 🙏
“Don’t follow your heart,” I really needed to hear this. Thanks for sharing!
You are so true!!!!
I am surely inspired to read C.S.Lewis!
I'm a simple guy.. l see a new Fr. Mike video.. l instantly click the like button 👍
Oh my, I needed this video today
Thank u Fr. 🙏
Great Video Fr. Mike. God bless. 🙏🏻
How TRUE. Needed to hear this.
BE ARE ALARMIST. YOUR OUR PRIEST
Choosing the good. Thank you for this beautiful, important video 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing!
wow Father Mike. God help me to understand my role in this life. Jesus I trust in You. Thinking about keeping marriage which sunk us.
Write one Preaching of mine everyday and record and upload on youtube and share to all your contacts and send on all social media. You will be blessed from day 3..
Beautiful message. Thank you, Fr. Mike
Excellent! Yes, I never thought of “heart leading”. Thanks.
This is so good. Such a relevant video for the times we're experiencing.
Great message, keep up the good word Father Mike ….I learn so much about the word of God, along the right choices from your podcast’s Thank you 🙏
Indeed, yes. Watch what we watch! Amen
This was much needed for me dear Fr. Mike... Love you and praying for your ministry. you are truly one good pastor. love you.
Thank you Fr. Mike for this video. It certainly wasn’t a downer for me. Lately I have been just going about life with the intellectual assent of yeah I believe in the Catholic faith while letting my heart go where it wants thinking that as long as I know what is true my heart won’t be affected by what I encounter. Providing the parallel to Solomon was incredibly helpful to help shake me awake. Thank you
I really needed to hear this tonight
Good morning Father Mike and thank you again for another powerful message 🙌🏼
Amazing video about the heart 🙏🏾
Thanks!
Love love love CS Lewis, I have budgeted to buy The C.S. Lewis Bible XOX
Thank you for this. I had to break up with my bf today because he of my soul and he does not believe. I had to do this as God has given me so many blessings and protection the past two years, my vocation in life is to have my life light so much with the Holy Spirit that the fire from God, that others want to love God as I do. And I can’t love God above all if I’m putting someone who is pulling me down spiritually, in front of God. I cannot. So this video was another blessing from the Lord. Praise be to God and Fr. mike
This video speaks to me so much. We need to learn to let go of worldly desires that aren’t truly good. They are like a road block from our journey to Heaven.
Wow for the mike what a revelation. I enjoy watching you especially when you was with Bishop Robert two of my favorites and when I saw you two together I like to fell on the floor how awesome that is God has put both of you in my sight He is truly beautiful and he has goodness for everyone that believes
Thank You Father Mike !!! It’s very nice that we all be reminded especially those whose hearts are clouded by distorted truth and goodness because God’s seed was planted in a thorny field. More blessings of wisdom for you Father Mike so that you can share those wisdoms to us. Once again thank you. I’ll share this with my good friend who’s is confused by distorted truth and goodness.
Father Mike, because of you I read The Great Divorce. 3 times. It's so easy tô choose distortion, identify all of them is a day by day work. Thanks! Greetings from Brasil!