Thank You Fr. Mike, for objective and subjective Truth, Red and Drop-by-drop Martyrdom - this is so profound and challenging - God is my guide, I will follow.
May God wash away the ignorance of those who are against holy mother church and bring them to a knowledge to live in the truth that where there is falsehood they may carry the truth.
This study has enriched my life in totally unexpected ways. I'm sorry to see it coming to an end in just a few weeks. Still, I am motivated to learn more so I'm going back to BIAY and I know I will complete it. This has created a stronger foundation than I had before. Praise God and thank you Ascension. I'm praying for you. ❤🔥
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 11/16/2023.
Greetings! BIY community greetings!! Let us ponder the question of whether we bear witness to the truth of Jesus and Christianity or, are we a martyr for Jesus. Let us pray for Fr Mike Schmitz, all the clergy and all of us in the BIY/CIY community. Amen.
God is the source of all truth made manifest by Jesus. All of those who follow Him are called to sincerity and truthfulness in acting and speaking. Everyone has the duty to seek the truth, to adhere to it, and to order one's whole life in accordance with its demands. As Christians, we must bear witness to the truth of the Gospel in every field of his activity, both public and private, and also, if necessary, with the sacrifice of his very life. Martyrdom is the supreme witness given to the truth of the faith.
I have no Christian nabbors 😔so far. I'm not going to stop preaching the gospel of Jesus christ. The man whom died on the cross for me, so that I may live ❤
In these times of looking for external validation, social acceptance, and a competition to be popular, this analysis reminds us to stay true to Jesus and God instead of conforming to the world and faking a life. The mention of the sin of scandal is perfect. We must not live a life that is not true. Whenever we fake a life, it only leads to further confusion and diversion from our life's true path. It leads to acedia as well because by following a fake life, we might do the things that we are not supposed to do. Martyrdom is the best example of staying true to the truth. The hypothetical situation of Christianity & Catholicism becoming illegal helps us to realize that we must live the Gospel and not just study or pray it. We must also not hide our faith whenever we are asked. It reminds me of Nicodemus and how he followed Jesus but couldn't publicly declare that he was a follower. If we live truthfully, we can get the help we want and many right doors will open. May we all be brave enough to be true and may we be strong in faith. Amen. Thank you so much for this analysis, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. I'm praying for you and for the fellow listeners. God bless
Have spent the last 30 plus years trying to change my life for the better. To try and live the way I was meant to live. The way God wanted me to live. Spent so much wasted time trying to do it all alone and didn't even realize it.... I knew I was a sinner... Spent years like someone going up a very large mountain carrying a sack full of rocks on my back. I couldn't let go of the bag of rocks no matter how hard I tried....The bag was a metaphor ofcourse. A bag full of my mistakes and many sins. Would go to reconciliation, confess my sins and still carry them like a a poor imitation of a martyr. Had no idea how much God loved me. I was trying so hard to change my life all by myself. A good friend and mentor of mine had said to me that my sins are not beyond Gods mercy. Jesus had already died for me. For you. The mercy of God is far more beautiful then we know. or could ever understand. I still have a long way to go to understand this. Will be forever grateful to this priest Father Ed. My he rest in the peace of God. Helped me to see I can't do it on my own. That I'm a sinner that God loves. He loves me in spite of my short comings. That is the truth. Jesus have mercy on me a poor sinner......
We are called to live in the truth and bear witness to it. To walk in truth, grace and love. Say simply "yes" or "no". Our mind is made for the truth and its only in our weakness that we choose things which are not the truth. Truth is *what is* - the reality. We are obliged to bear witness to what is. Its a challenge to live in the truth as disciples of Jesus. To live life differently in bearing witness to Jesus even unto death. If not *red* then we must live as *white martyrs* drop by drop on a daily basis.❤
“You are my witnesses-oracle of the Lord- my servant whom I have chosen To know and believe in me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, and after me there shall be none.” Isaiah 43:10
November 16, 2023 Please, I am looking for people to take a moment and pray with me for Souls in Purgatory. Can you help? 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)
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.”
This Truth as all Truth...sets us free, free to do what we ought❤, Jesus grace us to say yes to all the " evidence" you call each one of us to live & profess😇🙏🏻🙏🏻 Fr Mike, thank you, God bless ypu & All holy angels & saints, pray for us❤😇🙏♥️
I would be facing a life sentence i say pray and preach Jesus but i rather be found giulty than be in this world at least I know who died for me and always loves me
The RAW UNFILTERED TRUTH is that the Commandments, the teachings and instructions of God Almighty never, never, ever changed to please my or yours or their evil wicked crooked godless agenda of the minions of satan and his horrendous demons.
November 16, 2023 Please consider 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!
Deeply edifying. Especially toward the end of the episode. The fact that following our Lord means our lives will look different. Should look different. Went to my first TLM this past Sunday and I left and it was so different… other worldly almost. And this point drove it home. We are to be set apart.
@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse absolutely. Going back again next month. The shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown PA has a Latin mass on the second Sunday of every month.
In 2020 I turned on the TH-cam and saw an 11 year old boy in drag dancing for grown men. The people that narrated the story said is was bravery. The amount of lies that have to be accepted for this to be a thing is heart breaking.
God Bless you Fr. Mike. I’m praying for you. Thank you for praying for me❤️ I love your explanation: Truth = What Is. Subjective Truth = subject (I like Starbucks coffee -You like DD) my truth & your truth. Objective Truth = What Is my experience. (I can get a cup of coffee for $2.00 at DD) I hope I got it right🤦🏻♀️ ❤
Day 320 ...!!!🎉❤🎉❤ I can not believe that today Thursday November 16th, 2023 is day 320 of The Catechism in a year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension press which means it is only 45 days left which also means that the year 2024 is 45 days away from us 🤣🤣😂 #2023 #2024 Deo gratia. Viva Cristo Rey.
I can completely agree with this commandment in so far as it follows truth. Where I fall down is on discretion. I have trouble reconciling secrecy with truth. This has especially come to a head in the last three pontificates as truth once kept secret, has been revealed to be secrets imprudently kept, causing the four forms of clerical abuse when the abuse could have been stopped before great harm was done. The concept of the sin of detraction, in its avoidance, often also leads to a lack of truth. Hopefully these will become more clear in the coming days.
Yes, hiding crimes is not living in the truth. They weren’t being discrete they were hiding crimes. I would think discretion has more to do with protecting people from unnecessary hurt, more for subjective truth than objective. The example he gave illustrates that. Have you heard of Corrie ten Boom? Her family hid Jews during the war. If people asked they always lied & said no they weren’t hiding them. They eventually were betrayed, arrested, & sent to a concentration camp where all of her family died but her. She relates the story of her aunt’s family. They also hid Jews, but when confronted they admitted the truth. They were all arrested. That night the resistance broke into the jail & smuggled them all out to England. They didn’t spend one full night imprisoned. Corrie said make of that what you will & decide your actions. They made a movie about Corrie’s family, The Hiding Place.
@@MorreHope Thank you for praying for my friend, Pam. She’s much better. She’s being released from ICU today & going to pulmonary rehab. I still have pneumonia but I’m getting better.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN The pizzeria is our favorite place. We are kind of friends with the owners. He gave me some yeasted dough; for me to mix with my batch of dough; my own recipe; that I had not done in years. It came out horrible. I will use the bread; - baguette style. Chopped up to pieces; made croutons instead. It has all kinds of drippings. Yummy; regardless of the circumstances of poor bread; that was feeling poorly.
God is the source of all truth! When he was on trial for his life Jesus spoke some words which give an answer to this question. He said in John 18:37, "For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice." But how many times do I hold back because I don’t think it will make a difference. How many conversations have I not had, because I don’t think it will make a difference. Because I don’t think it will produce those results, I don’t speak. But there is power in the truth. And the nature of my calling is to be a faithful witness, to make the good confession no matter what the results. If we have spoken the truth we have been successful God wants to use you to give voice to the truth. And the focus must be on faithfulness. As we faithfully give voice to the truth, like a sword coming out of our mouth (Revelation 1:6), truth conquerers. So let us be filled with, love for God and speak the truth.
Thank you Father. Linking your discussion on subjective truth and objective truth, would it be reasonable to say objective truth compares to things we take literally in the Bible?
In some ways it is perhaps easier to endure a short period of torture ending in execution than to suffer a lifetime of scorn, but we must remember what Christ said: “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.”
I don't know, personally I don't find the statement that there are things like "my truth" and "your truth" helpful. Truth is truth. If the subject is something about me, it can be different from something about someone different, but it's still simply true or false. Not subjectively/objectively or so. "What is" or "what isn't".
There’s no such thing as subjective truth. What Fr. Mike calls subjective truth in reality is opinion. Redefining words leads to muddy thinking & difficulty finding truth.
@@lisastechschulte2312 I don’t think he was considered a white martyr, but he won the crown of martyrdom & the crown of heroic virtue (white crown) that was offered to him by the Blessed Virgin Mary. At least that’s the way I understand it.
CAUTION- please don’t teach our young people that “subjective truth” is such a thing. It is called OPINION. Only GOD is TRUTH. This is important because Satan is having a field day manipulating words in our culture. Another example is the word LOVE which wills the good. Our young people must understand the meaning of these words so that they are armed with the knowledge to defend themselves from evil.
So true! To call an opinion subjective truth muddies the water. Words are being redefined left & right every day. If words are too elastic in their meaning it prevents thinking clearly & you get the errors you see today, ie “I feel like a woman” said by a man. Saying “love is love” opens society up to all sorts of obscene acts, not just homosexual.
Believing in a god, a supernatural being, does not correspond to reality. It is therefore not true. Having beliefs does correspond to reality. However, the contents of those beliefs either correspond to reality or don't.
Your assertion that the existence of God “doesn’t correspond to reality” is itself quite dogmatic. Unless of course you have absolute proof; which I don’t think is the case, as many atheist philosophers, more clever than you and myself, desperately tried to find one and failed. Your approach is also self defeating - the fact that you believe that God doesn’t exist doesn’t make your (dis)belief true. I wish you the best in your search for truth.
@@paologat When you treat a troll with far more respect than he deserves, he turns around and bites you. Our "skeptical" friend is not worth engaging in any serious way. Nice try though! 👍 All you did was wish him the best, and he tells ya to get your facts straight! Incredibly rude!
@@jamesmcgrath3841it’s likely because he is feeling better off in the place he is now looking back at the faith in anger and distrust because a few bad apples spoiled it for him- he obviously doesn’t want to open up that can of worms to see how God just might be speaking to his heart because it’s just that painful to him- therefore the only way he knows how to express himself here is in this way-which helps him cope either way with what he dealt with from “authoritarian” people who raised him. It gives him the power now that they attempted to strip him of. It’s all a defense mechanism. If only he’d search his/her heart and allow the peace of Jesus Christ to heal those wounds, he’d finally feel free of that anger he chooses to contain and retain for the church, or maybe less so than before I still say to RJ Skeptic-go to an adoration chapel and spend some time before the Lord. He’s calling you dear one.🙏🏻😊
@@jamesmcgrath3841 Hi James. I was trying to decide if there was any point in replying to rj but decided against it. I usually only reply for the sake of others not the OP. I know he’s here only to start arguments. Have a great day. God bless.🙏❤️
Hello everyone & Happy Day 320!🙏😊 It’s my Birthday!🎂
Happy Birthday!!!!! 🎂🎂🎂
Happy birthday 🎉
Happy Birthday Elizabeth!!! 🎉🎉🎉
@@Alexander-fr1kk Hi Alex and thank you!😊
A blessed birthday to you.
May God bless you with a lifetime of happiness in good health to enjoy the coming days.
Thank You Fr. Mike, for objective and subjective Truth, Red and Drop-by-drop Martyrdom - this is so profound and challenging - God is my guide, I will follow.
Thank you once again, Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Praise you lord Jesus Christ ❤❤❤Prayers Father Mike
Amen ❤️ 🙏
Amen 🙏. 12/12/2024
Thank you Father Mike God bless you!❤🙏❤ God bless you all!🙏❤🙏
May God wash away the ignorance of those who are against holy mother church and bring them to a knowledge to live in the truth that where there is falsehood they may carry the truth.
Thank you for that clear and simple definition and explanation of truth. That totally make sense.
Thank you Father Mike. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world 🙏♥️✝️
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Thank you father mike
Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. God bless ❤🙏
God bless and keep us all in His truth Amen 🙏 ❤
This study has enriched my life in totally unexpected ways. I'm sorry to see it coming to an end in just a few weeks. Still, I am motivated to learn more so I'm going back to BIAY and I know I will complete it. This has created a stronger foundation than I had before. Praise God and thank you Ascension. I'm praying for you. ❤🔥
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Me too. Sad to see CIY coming to and end. But can’t wait to do BIAY again and see how my understanding had developed and deepened ❤
Amen!🙏❤️
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 11/16/2023.
Thank you Fr Mike. I could listen to you teaching us in this way all day, I can really soak it in. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
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God bless you too Fr 🙏
“Truth. Grace. Love”. Praying 🛐
Yes. Word.
Thank you Father Mike. It's such a pleasure listening to you every day. God bless you always. Please pray for me. I am praying for you. 🌹
Day 320...Thankyou Fr.Mike for your time. Praying for you and the Ascension team 🙏
Greetings! BIY community greetings!! Let us ponder the question of whether we bear witness to the truth of Jesus and Christianity or, are we a martyr for Jesus. Let us pray for Fr Mike Schmitz, all the clergy and all of us in the BIY/CIY community. Amen.
God is the source of all truth made manifest by Jesus. All of those who follow Him are called to sincerity and truthfulness in acting and speaking. Everyone has the duty to seek the truth, to adhere to it, and to order one's whole life in accordance with its demands. As Christians, we must bear witness to the truth of the Gospel in every field of his activity, both public and private, and also, if necessary, with the sacrifice of his very life. Martyrdom is the supreme witness given to the truth of the faith.
I have no Christian nabbors 😔so far. I'm not going to stop preaching the gospel of Jesus christ. The man whom died on the cross for me, so that I may live ❤
Thank you Father Mike prayers Amen thanks Be to God Amen 🙏 ❤
Beautiful teaching.
Happy Birthday ! God bless
Thank you so much, Fr. Mike and team Ascension Presents!
To GOD be All the Highest Glory ❣️
Thank you so much Fr Mike and Ascension. As always, I am praying for all. God Bless 🙏🏻
Praise to you God and Jesus Christ🙏❤🕊😇
In these times of looking for external validation, social acceptance, and a competition to be popular, this analysis reminds us to stay true to Jesus and God instead of conforming to the world and faking a life. The mention of the sin of scandal is perfect. We must not live a life that is not true. Whenever we fake a life, it only leads to further confusion and diversion from our life's true path. It leads to acedia as well because by following a fake life, we might do the things that we are not supposed to do. Martyrdom is the best example of staying true to the truth. The hypothetical situation of Christianity & Catholicism becoming illegal helps us to realize that we must live the Gospel and not just study or pray it. We must also not hide our faith whenever we are asked. It reminds me of Nicodemus and how he followed Jesus but couldn't publicly declare that he was a follower. If we live truthfully, we can get the help we want and many right doors will open. May we all be brave enough to be true and may we be strong in faith. Amen. Thank you so much for this analysis, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. I'm praying for you and for the fellow listeners. God bless
...To remain true to the Truth!, well said. blessings!
...To remain true to the Truth!, well said. blessings!
@@manfrey1 Thank you so much, Ely! God bless you!
Have spent the last 30 plus years trying to change my life for the better. To try and live the way I was meant to live. The way God wanted me to live. Spent so much wasted time trying to do it all alone and didn't even realize it.... I knew I was a sinner... Spent years like someone going up a very large mountain carrying a sack full of rocks on my back. I couldn't let go of the bag of rocks no matter how hard I tried....The bag was a metaphor ofcourse. A bag full of my mistakes and many sins. Would go to reconciliation, confess my sins and still carry them like a a poor imitation of a martyr. Had no idea how much God loved me. I was trying so hard to change my life all by myself. A good friend and mentor of mine had said to me that my sins are not beyond Gods mercy. Jesus had already died for me. For you. The mercy of God is far more beautiful then we know. or could ever understand. I still have a long way to go to understand this. Will be forever grateful to this priest Father Ed. My he rest in the peace of God.
Helped me to see I can't do it on my own. That I'm a sinner that God loves. He loves me in spite of my short comings. That is the truth. Jesus have mercy on me a poor sinner......
RIGHT ON!!!
Happy birthday to who ever celebrates today! 🎂🎁🎈🎉
Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
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Amen 19-11-2024
Truth is WHAT IS! Nice! ❤❤❤❤❤white martyr like Bishop Strickland. God bless him.
We are called to live in the truth and bear witness to it. To walk in truth, grace and love. Say simply "yes" or "no".
Our mind is made for the truth and its only in our weakness that we choose things which are not the truth. Truth is *what is* - the reality. We are obliged to bear witness to what is. Its a challenge to live in the truth as disciples of Jesus. To live life differently in bearing witness to Jesus even unto death. If not *red* then we must live as *white martyrs* drop by drop on a daily basis.❤
Amen🙏❤️
Thank you Father
“You are my witnesses-oracle of the Lord- my servant whom I have chosen To know and believe in me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, and after me there shall be none.”
Isaiah 43:10
whaaaatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!! I have never in recollection heard the 8th commandment described in this way :O :O :O
November 16, 2023
Please, I am looking for people to take a moment and pray with me for Souls in Purgatory. Can you help?
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)
Every day here is wonderful, but some are better than others. This was one of those days! Thank you Fr. Mike!! God bless you and all of us. 🙏🙏🙏
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.”
This Truth as all Truth...sets us free, free to do what we ought❤, Jesus grace us to say yes to all the " evidence" you call each one of us to live & profess😇🙏🏻🙏🏻 Fr Mike, thank you, God bless ypu & All holy angels & saints, pray for us❤😇🙏♥️
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God bless Father Mike
Happy birthday, Elizabeth!
Word.
The convicted of following Christ is my fave modern day anecdote of being a good Catholic.
I would be facing a life sentence i say pray and preach Jesus but i rather be found giulty than be in this world at least I know who died for me and always loves me
The RAW UNFILTERED TRUTH is that the Commandments, the teachings and instructions of God Almighty never, never, ever changed to please my or yours or their evil wicked crooked godless agenda of the minions of satan and his horrendous demons.
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It's a pity I can't afford to support financially but you have my prayer support.
November 16, 2023
Please consider 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!
May God bless you always 🙏🙏
Some things should not be said, that’s true😏♥️
Day 320.🙏🙏🙏
Deeply edifying. Especially toward the end of the episode. The fact that following our Lord means our lives will look different. Should look different. Went to my first TLM this past Sunday and I left and it was so different… other worldly almost. And this point drove it home. We are to be set apart.
A beautiful mass, isn't it?
@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse absolutely. Going back again next month. The shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Doylestown PA has a Latin mass on the second Sunday of every month.
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In 2020 I turned on the TH-cam and saw an 11 year old boy in drag dancing for grown men. The people that narrated the story said is was bravery. The amount of lies that have to be accepted for this to be a thing is heart breaking.
The corruption of the innocent children will bring down the judgment of God. I wouldn’t want to be the parents of that child.😔🙏❤️
Amen 🙏.
God Bless you Fr. Mike.
I’m praying for you. Thank you for praying for me❤️
I love your explanation:
Truth = What Is.
Subjective Truth = subject (I like Starbucks coffee -You like DD) my truth & your truth.
Objective Truth = What Is my experience.
(I can get a cup of coffee for $2.00 at DD)
I hope I got it right🤦🏻♀️
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Day 320 ...!!!🎉❤🎉❤
I can not believe that today Thursday November 16th, 2023 is day 320 of The Catechism in a year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension press which means it is only 45 days left which also means that the year 2024 is 45 days away from us 🤣🤣😂
#2023 #2024
Deo gratia. Viva Cristo Rey.
I can completely agree with this commandment in so far as it follows truth.
Where I fall down is on discretion. I have trouble reconciling secrecy with truth.
This has especially come to a head in the last three pontificates as truth once kept secret, has been revealed to be secrets imprudently kept, causing the four forms of clerical abuse when the abuse could have been stopped before great harm was done.
The concept of the sin of detraction, in its avoidance, often also leads to a lack of truth.
Hopefully these will become more clear in the coming days.
Yes, hiding crimes is not living in the truth. They weren’t being discrete they were hiding crimes. I would think discretion has more to do with protecting people from unnecessary hurt, more for subjective truth than objective. The example he gave illustrates that.
Have you heard of Corrie ten Boom? Her family hid Jews during the war. If people asked they always lied & said no they weren’t hiding them. They eventually were betrayed, arrested, & sent to a concentration camp where all of her family died but her. She relates the story of her aunt’s family. They also hid Jews, but when confronted they admitted the truth. They were all arrested. That night the resistance broke into the jail & smuggled them all out to England. They didn’t spend one full night imprisoned. Corrie said make of that what you will & decide your actions. They made a movie about Corrie’s family, The Hiding Place.
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Amen
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@@TrixRN I am going to do the Rosary now; praying for Pam.
@@MorreHope Thank you for praying for my friend, Pam. She’s much better. She’s being released from ICU today & going to pulmonary rehab. I still have pneumonia but I’m getting better.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN The pizzeria is our favorite place. We are kind of friends with the owners. He gave me some yeasted dough; for me to mix with my batch of dough; my own recipe; that I had not done in years. It came out horrible. I will use the bread; - baguette style. Chopped up to pieces; made croutons instead. It has all kinds of drippings. Yummy; regardless of the circumstances of poor bread; that was feeling poorly.
God is the source of all truth! When he was on trial for his life Jesus spoke some words which give an answer to this question. He said in John 18:37, "For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice."
But how many times do I hold back because I don’t think it will make a difference. How many conversations have I not had, because I don’t think it will make a difference. Because I don’t think it will produce those results, I don’t speak. But there is power in the truth. And the nature of my calling is to be a faithful witness, to make the good confession no matter what the results. If we have spoken the truth we have been successful
God wants to use you to give voice to the truth. And the focus must be on faithfulness. As we faithfully give voice to the truth, like a sword coming out of our mouth (Revelation 1:6), truth conquerers. So let us be filled with, love for God and speak the truth.
Such a good comment
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Amen! Best comment so far.🙏❤️
I thought this was so meaningful that I saved it to my own sight. Thanks for enlightening all of us at CIY that have read it.❤
@@dianefrank3688 Thank you. We must speak Jesus' Truth. My Lord and my God!❤❤❤
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Katy, Tx (Cinco Ranch) 9:58 am
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Thank you Father.
Linking your discussion on subjective truth and objective truth, would it be reasonable to say objective truth compares to things we take literally in the Bible?
IF you were dragged into court for being a Christian, would they have enough evidence to convict? Would you provide the evidence that may be missing?
In some ways it is perhaps easier to endure a short period of torture ending in execution than to suffer a lifetime of scorn, but we must remember what Christ said: “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.”
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I don't know, personally I don't find the statement that there are things like "my truth" and "your truth" helpful. Truth is truth. If the subject is something about me, it can be different from something about someone different, but it's still simply true or false. Not subjectively/objectively or so. "What is" or "what isn't".
Today it seems like our world stresses subjective truth over objective truth.
Therein lies our problem.
There’s no such thing as subjective truth. What Fr. Mike calls subjective truth in reality is opinion. Redefining words leads to muddy thinking & difficulty finding truth.
Why can't red martyrs be white too? Some saints that gave their Earthly life were bad ass.
White martyrs aren’t killed for the faith.
St. Maximilian Kolbe was a red and white martyr.
@@lisastechschulte2312 I don’t think he was considered a white martyr, but he won the crown of martyrdom & the crown of heroic virtue (white crown) that was offered to him by the Blessed Virgin Mary. At least that’s the way I understand it.
I understand that he was a red and white martyr, according to St. John Paul II.
CAUTION- please don’t teach our young people that “subjective truth” is such a thing. It is called OPINION. Only GOD is TRUTH.
This is important because Satan is having a field day manipulating words in our culture. Another example is the word LOVE which wills the good. Our young people must understand the meaning of these words so that they are armed with the knowledge to defend themselves from evil.
So true! To call an opinion subjective truth muddies the water. Words are being redefined left & right every day. If words are too elastic in their meaning it prevents thinking clearly & you get the errors you see today, ie “I feel like a woman” said by a man. Saying “love is love” opens society up to all sorts of obscene acts, not just homosexual.
Believing in a god, a supernatural being, does not correspond to reality. It is therefore not true.
Having beliefs does correspond to reality. However, the contents of those beliefs either correspond to reality or don't.
Your assertion that the existence of God “doesn’t correspond to reality” is itself quite dogmatic. Unless of course you have absolute proof; which I don’t think is the case, as many atheist philosophers, more clever than you and myself, desperately tried to find one and failed.
Your approach is also self defeating - the fact that you believe that God doesn’t exist doesn’t make your (dis)belief true.
I wish you the best in your search for truth.
@@paologat I never said I believe a god doesn't exist. Before you accuse someone's approach as self defeating, get your facts right.
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When you treat a troll with far more respect than he deserves, he turns around and bites you. Our "skeptical" friend is not worth engaging in any serious way. Nice try though! 👍
All you did was wish him the best, and he tells ya to get your facts straight! Incredibly rude!
@@jamesmcgrath3841it’s likely because he is feeling better off in the place he is now looking back at the faith in anger and distrust because a few bad apples spoiled it for him- he obviously doesn’t want to open up that can of worms to see how God just might be speaking to his heart because it’s just that painful to him- therefore the only way he knows how to express himself here is in this way-which helps him cope either way with what he dealt with from “authoritarian” people who raised him. It gives him the power now that they attempted to strip him of.
It’s all a defense mechanism.
If only he’d search his/her heart and allow the peace of Jesus Christ to heal those wounds, he’d finally feel free of that anger he chooses to contain and retain for the church, or maybe less so than before
I still say to RJ Skeptic-go to an adoration chapel and spend some time before the Lord. He’s calling you dear one.🙏🏻😊
@@jamesmcgrath3841 Hi James. I was trying to decide if there was any point in replying to rj but decided against it. I usually only reply for the sake of others not the OP. I know he’s here only to start arguments. Have a great day. God bless.🙏❤️
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Thank you Father Mike
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Thank you father Mike
Amen