An eye for an eye, or turn the other cheek; which makes sense? What should I do?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Homily of Fr. Michael O'Connor from Mass on February 19, 2023, at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS
Referenced Readings
Lv 19:1-2, 17-18
1 Cor 3:16-23
Mt 5:38-48
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Thank you Father Michael. I thirsty every day to hear your homilies. I am watching the old ones too, I discovered this channel a couple of weeks ago. This was a gift of God. I am so happy they are strengthening my faith, showing me the way I should be to follow Jesus and maybe one day by the grace of God be next to him. Thank you for your guidance. God bless you and keep you safe and healthy.🙏🙏❤
Always feeding your Lambs, thank you Fr Mike🙏🏻🐾
Thanks Fr. You're a wonderful gift God gave us💖
Thank you Father Mike. Difficult yet inspiring message. God bless you for your loving and wise guidance. It is so needed in this world today. Prayers for you always.
Exactly what i say difficult.. Hard work to do daily
🙏🏽 Amen
Wonderful and thought provoking homily!
Amen. AMEN. THANK YOU
It is the answer, love him.
I love your homilies.
God speaks to me often. And he spoke to me today through Fr. Mike, in the word that he used. Becoming. I am a late bloomer in Catholicism. I had no religion growing up but always felt that the Catholics I knew, had something special. So at 56 years old, I went through RCIA to be Catholic. Every time someone asked me how it was going, how I felt, if I was processing the information correctly, my reply was always, "I feel like I'm becoming." That's it. I don't or didn't know WHY, that was my reply, but it was just that and nothing more. And today, Father has just confirmed to me that God's message to me then, was indeed a correct discernment of God's intent for me. Thanks to Father Michael for being such a good and faithful conduit. Thanks to those near to me who FINALLY invited me into the fold. Thank you Jesus, Holy Ghost and Father God for everything you offer to Humanity.
Thank God he has called you home to the one and only Church Jesus Christ founded.
I left the Catholic church and he called me back .
Thank you, Fr. Mike. Another sermon that you knocked right out of the park.
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER AND UNCONDITIONAL TRUST IN JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY NO MATTER HOW HOPELESS IT SEEMS..
Thank you, Fr. Mike for helping me to understand more clearly what God wants from me. To strive to being perfect like God is perfect and why to pray for my enemies.🙏
Thank you Fr.Mike for a wonderful inspirational sermon, anyone who listens to you will be back for more. I listened to this twice.
The two little brothers with the first pancake, 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you fr Mike God bless you 🙏 Lord 🕊️ please help me and my family love all of our neighbors as ourselves and love ourselves daily father son holyspirit Amen 🕊️🙏✝️💟🛐❤️
Greetings from Colombo Sri Lanka with Christian Catholic love for all people of good WILL! Glory to God in the highest and peace to all the people!...I would like to know why this video not allowed to be downloaded!...Such a wonderful sermon!😇🙌🙋🌹🌹🌹
Amen! This Lenten season that starts Wednesday, may it make us more like Jesus as we learn more, do more, and love more. God bless🙏
Praise Jesus Christ! God speaks through you, Father. By all means, you can preach to us any day. We need it. God bless you. Praying for you Father. (I hope you write a book)
Grateful to God for the Homily I heard from a holy priest.
Absolutely brilliant! This gospel has always made me stumble. I couldn't fully get it, but thank you Father, I FINALLY get it after 60 years! I've heard so many explanations, but God finally got through! May God bless and protect you always.
🙏🕊Thank you Father Mike.✝️ ❤
Tough sermon to hear as I am guilty of thinking or feeling all the sins you mentioned but they are “Truth” and I know they are true as I feel them in my sole.Thank you Father Mike for saying what needs saying.
Kudos Father Mike. I saw your videos for the first time today, by the grace of God. Just to let you know that you look better with no beard, much cleaner look that matches your clean pure profound messages. Keep up the good work!
How wonderfully agonizing to hear this confirming homily message "being~becoming"!
Have been given, interior inspiration, for personal Lenten spiritual exercise, to be brought to fruition in reality, literally.
*EXPAND YOUR TABLE NOT YOUR FENCE(S). and
*ENOUGH IS NEVER ENOUGH TO OFFER IF YOU HAVE.
Wrestling with this already, seeking an abundant outpouring of graces necessary.
May we each/all emerge from Lent much holier than we entered in!
Lord help us to forgive those who have sinned against us by the grace of Holy Spirit and help us to live Holy lives to glorify your Holy Name. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
Reflection: Matthew -5:38-48- The Message from the Gospel is Very Clear - We All have to Forgive those who Offend Us. We must Love Our Brothers and Sisters in All Races. We must not live with the Saying an Eye for an Eye a Tooth for a Tooth. Jesus gave Us the Guide to Always Transform and Prepare Ourselves in the Future. What does the Gospel from Matthew- 5:38-48 Is Telling Us.? At the Present Time where Hatred Rules Our Nation We must all try to Dwell in the Message of Jesus. We are All Children of God and We have to Try to Live as God Wants from Us. We must Try to put Everything in Humble Prayer and Contemplate and Strive for Perfection. We Must Forget what those People Do and Ask God for Strength to Forgive Our Enemies Without Judging Them. We as Christians Must - Remain Calm - Pray and Stay Close to God - Focus on the Cross.
Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor.
Sometimes, we have to do what we have to as much as we don't want to. No choice. Jesus knows. Amen.😢
Aren’t we already that grace? So we just have to be what we are, without all the trips we ourselves put on ourselves….
o Ephesians 6:11-13 NKJV
11 Put on the whole Armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
o Ephesians 6:11-13 NIV
11 Put on the full Armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
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o Matthew 10:33
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. NKJV
33 But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven. (KJV).
33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven. (NIV).
33 But those who reject me publicly, I will reject before my Father in heaven. (GNT).
33 But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven. (NLT)
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o 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (NKJV)
o 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 GNT
9 Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts 10 or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves-none of these will possess God's Kingdom. 11 Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (GNT)
o 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NIV
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (NIV)
o Ecclesiastes 7:2
o 2 Better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart. (NKJV)
o 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. (NIV)
o 2 Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. After all, everyone dies- so the living should take this to heart. (NLT)
o 2 It is better to go to a home where there is mourning than to one where there is a party, because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all. (Good News Translation)
o James 3:6
o 3 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. (NIV)
o 3 And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself. (NLT)
o 3 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity (wickedness). The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. (NKJV)
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3 And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself. (GNT)
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Can't love anyone who has to use which craft. Hate it. No need.
But Jesus doesn't love His enemy, Satan.
If someone knocks out your tooth, you can knock out only one of HIS, not THEIRS. "Someone" is singular, so use the singular pronoun, HIS, not THEIRS. Or, are you conforming to "woke" English disturbed use of language?
Amen 🙏