I brought my son & daughter to mass from the day they were born. They’re 25 and 16 today and deeply rooted in Christ. I have no regrets, no regrets. It was so hard; especially when they were new born babies, especially with my boy. He wouldn’t sit still for 1 minute between the ages 2-3. I admit, one time, I pinched him silently 😱 on his thigh (sorry Jesus 😞). He got all teary but didn’t dare cry. After that day, he sat better & behaved. My daughter was always on her best behaviour, no issue. It was hard, but no regrets. Up until today, they both never miss mass. And we love to talk about the Readings & the Gospel after every mass. Nice. I love this. But I also never take things for granted, and so I pray every night; “Lord Jesus, keep both my children rooted at Your cross for the rest of their lives. Give them good Catholic spouses in that they will grow strong in their faith forever as a family with their own kids. Amen.”
So you didn't care that it bothered others, a whole room-full of people in fact? People bringing their screaming and yelling kids is the most selfish thing ever, they care neither about the kids, nor about all of the other people, only about themselves! They are too greedy to hire a baby-sitter and would rather torture their kids who don't want to be there and are just yelling and everyone else! Greed and selfishness dressed up as some sort of sacrifice.
@@ElenaKomleva how would you have children learn the importance of attending Mass without their actually attending? Given the current state of the world and the frighteningly low belief in God by today's young adults, I dare say that God would much rather have those raucous kids with their family in His house than sitting at home with a non-church-attending babysiter playing video games or watching TV. Better to develop the habit of attending church WHILE learning to respect peace and quiet for others' sake than to potentially never appreciate going to Mass at all. Perhaps graciously offering to help a struggling parent to quiet their child would be a better demonstration on your part that YOU have actually learned something from our Lord's teachings.
@@ElenaKomleva That was really cruel. Not everyone can afford a babysitter like you probably can!!!! You did not listen to Fr. Mike’s talk so you do not value that the children are in God’s holy presence. @ Love-divine please continue taking your child to Holy Mass. May our Lord Jesus bless you.
I needed to hear this! Thank you! When I have my baby and child at mass with me and if they're acting up I do feel bad that it may distract others, let alone me sweating and not hearing a thing from the service. I will now go to mass with the intention of offering my woes up. A couple of months ago a priest came up to me at the end of mass after my baby was particularly noisy and he said he loves hearing the young at mass and he put me at ease. 🙏🏻
Without babies at Mass it’s a dying Church. There’s no way the Church can grow without babies. I love seeing babies at Mass because that means there are young people at Mass as well since most parents are relatively young. I am concerned that the vast majority at Mass have gray hair. Where have all the millennials gone? I pray that the millennials and gen x’ers will return because their eternal souls are in grave jeopardy until they do.
@Ashling S I had a priest tell me the same thing many, many years ago. And amazingly, my children began joining in the prayers at Mass by the time they were 3 years old. You do your children much good by bringing them to Mass and teaching them by example; your example of offering to God your children and your struggles.
My girls are now 4 and 5, and by now they have gotten used to Mass and they pay attention and stay relatively quiet. But Rewind to when they were newborns and young toddlers, and it was messy and noisy and I'd break into a sweat trying to make sure they didn't disturb anyone! For a while I wondered what I was getting out of church if i couldn't concentrate on the scripture and homily, but the answer was clearly the Eucharist. If I ever see a mom struggling, I give them a smile of reassurance because we've all been there! It'll get easier mama, hang in there 😉
So you didn't care that it bothered others, a whole room-full of people in fact? People bringing their screaming and yelling kids is the most selfish thing ever, they care neither about the kids, nor about all of the other people, only about themselves! They are too greedy to hire a baby-sitter and would rather torture their kids who don't want to be there and are just yelling and everyone else!
8 don't always hate Jesus. When I think about what he gave to me I love him. When people think I should be crucified like him I hate him. He was supposed to do that so no other would have to die that way. I sacrifice every day I'm living. In death I would feel greedy and selfish.
I cry alot. I was taught some things that I see as sacred and others just ignore them and make me feel alone and cast away. I see you are happy. I wish I was. Being robbed makes me feel I'm going to starved to death and executed for nothing at all. Being robbed makes me feel my entire life's work is wasted . None of you care anything about me. I can see none of you know what I need. You ignore me and make me want to die. And sometimes even a bit sooner than I will if I had been treated better. I'm terrified. If you keep refusing to change I'm going to die. I never refused any offering. Nobody ever made one. Everything I am has just been discounted and my work left for dead. I don't know anyway that cries as much as me. I'm in the worst shape I've ever been. Just five years ago I was in the best shape I'd ever been in. Had they understood basic English I would have been in even better shape. Being in worse shape with nothing to look forward to but death is the saddest state you could ever put me in. I hope I kill myself tonight. It's better than living in this ultra depression you created and left me in. I don't want to see anyone. I don't want to go outside. I don't want to see who's outside. I want to lock the door lay down and die. I'm going to lock myself in my room and never open the door. If anyone tries to come in I'm going to cut my own throat so I never speak again. That's what you all gave to me. A reason not to live. A reason to quit and check out early. Thanks for never ending depression and death. I deserved better. I won't ever get it. Good bye. Forever.
SO true!!! Sacrifice is the thing that unites us to God! I remember my mom telling me when I was young that because she, in her youth, had taken care of several younger brothers, and because she had had her own eight kids, her least favourite chore was cleaning dirty cloth diapers in the toilet. But she offered this as a sacrifice to God by praying constantly, telling Him she was doing this for Him, while she cleaned the dirty diapers. Unknowingly this was a life lesson well learned by me, because I ended up with a severely mentally handicapped son who was in diapers for 38 years (plus my other children). And I still clean up his dirty messes. I offer the sacrifice to God, but, God has blessed me because I don't seem to mind the work as much as my mom did.
Does anyone remember the old L'Oreal advert that ends with "Because you're worth it"? My son finds it tough going to Mass as he finds it rather boring, but thankfully he knows it's the right thing to do in order to worship the God. I love Fr Mike explaining that even his "boredom" can be offered up as a sacrifice. Each time we go to Mass we effectively say to God - BECAUSE YOU'RE WORTH IT!
I always thought my struggle to focus during Mass and even during prayer time is a sin, and therefore my attendance to it means nothing. Lately during the pandemic so many worries have surfaced so there are plenty of times when I give up and just say, "Lord I'm so distressed right now, I offer my distraction to you." I feel so validated with this video, thank you Father ❤️
God bless Father Mike. I get emotional and euphoric during when the types The Rites of Eucharist Ritual is being said. But feel my heart racing during Prayer for Spiritual Communion. But feel 1/3 empty without the Consecrated Precious Blood of Jesus. 🙏🏼
God even allows us to unite our small annoyances and frustrations to the awesome Sacrifice of His Precious Son. His Mercy and Gentleness brings tears to my eyes. So much love, so much mercy. Thank you Fr. Mike! I will be putting this one in my favorites and watching it before Mass to be reminded of the purpose of worship.
Thank you for this beautiful talk, Fr. Mike! Thank you for affirming parents who bring their kids in, people in pain like my Mom, and people like me who struggle with scrupulosity and need to know those million-thoughts-a-second not only aren't sins in themselves, but I can keep them from being sins and make them part of an even worthier prayer by offering them up to the Father. God bless you!
Heard this in one of your speech on SEEK conference (until now it is still saved here in my phone.) Thank you very much Fr. Mike. You really are such a blessing. Thanks a lot. Thank you is never enough. Btw im in Day 258 and im subscribed.( Im Praying for you, pls Pray for me!) God bless. Much love from the Philippines.
Thank you, Fr Mike! So good! Am learning and understanding a lot! I brought my children to church, my first born would walk up towards the alter and sometimes sit on the first step, we had an understanding priest that did not get upset. ☺️
Fr. Mike, I'm a cradle Catholic but I always learn so much for your videos and get to laugh as an added bonus!! God Bless you Father and your wonderful Ministry!! Keep up the great work!!
Wow, you are excited. I could feel the positive energy coming through. Reminds me of a prayer we say in AA "God I offer myself to thee to build with me and do with me as you wilt."
And all our life should be a worship to Our Heavenly Father, so what ever you do, do it/offer it as a sacrifice. Many times I wondered what He wanted me to do, what was/is His will for me? Just doing what I have to do according to my calling and do it the best I can and offering it as a sacrifice. Offering ones mistakes, ones illnesses, ones joys, success but it is harder to offer up what is humiliating than what makes us look great. Sacrifice is the test of true love anyway. Thank you Father Mike. God bless and protect you. UOP.
I like the specificity with which Fr. Mike explains the facets of our faith in a way that balances simplicity, intelligibility, and complexity. Beyond that, I appreciate his passion for imparting divine truths to the hungry lambs of Christ. Thanks, Fr. Mike!
Father Mike you have a very special way to educate and convey the meaning of being a Catholic. You changed my perspective on Confession in a previous video. t feels awesome to learn all over again why we do what we do, thank you
I wish I'd known this earlier, because as part of the choir at Mass, I was always upset about not being able to pray after receiving Communion, since we'd then have to begin the Communion Hymn. My mind would have obtained such peace if I'd offered this as a sacrifice :) Thank you for this wonderfully explained video, Fr.Mike!
"Amen - the name of a demon and one of the names of the ram-headed Egyptian god of life and fertility, Amon", its sad how you are so influenced and brainwashed by the satanic church.
That lovely Old Testament again, so in tune with the way we live today! How about sacrificing our first born to God? On a serious note, a god that asks from you in order to feel loved, is a very insecure deity. 🧸
I don’t know if you’re the one reading these comments? I want to tell you Thank you Father Mike really really Thank you I have a daughter with special needs and yes I don’t go to church because of her. I seriously believe that God just showed me this beautiful segment to have me hear him through you telling me that I need to come back to church ⛪️. Thank you and Amen 🙏🏻 ❤️🙏🏻
such a great lesson because there is one of the priests at my parish that I can't hear and I am annoyed...now I know what todo...the reminder of why I a at Mass is very good indeed
After a two hour conversation with my mother, which was more faith-based than I had intended it to be, this was an interesting thing to hear. Part of my conversation with her was the fact that I only recall her taking me on my younger brother Rick, we were Irish twins to mass maybe four or five times the only other time I can remember my parents being in church was for maybe Easter Easter Sunday before we went out to brunch., or when one of the five of us was getting a sacrament. At the time we were in public school so we went to CCD on Saturday morning and what was probably a little early and it’s time after CCD was Saturday afternoon mass for the CCD kids. So we all went to mass and what was out larger size room. It wasn’t in the church itself but we had a very incredible young priest who we all just loved. We all went to church then five of us and if we were picked to take the gifts to the altar, thought that it was Christmas, what an honor. That was how it was at our house, and when we moved and became a member of a new parish, the same thing happened I had been. Rick and I had both been confirmed, and the rule went down that you had to stay in CCD until you were confirmed and then you could quit. I can remember wishing that I was back at Saint Andrews although as I think about it Fr. Hughes he was probably onto something else. Because I had always hoped that we would remain there long enough that I could be in his teen club. We had a great nun who had great ideas and and when we done so many things that she thought were proper and charitable, we were rewarded with a trip to see Godspell in Chicago or one night. “Don’t bother me God for I can’t cope.” She was a treat and a treasure but she left, and there wasn’t anyone who was interested in what the teenagers had the thing at that time. So it fell by the side it wouldn’t be until almost 20 years had passed. She was the aunt of one of my best friends. And her brother had died and so I went to the wake. I saw Tracy who was my friend and I said is sister Mugs around. And Tracy told me that she had left the church. You could’ve knocked me over with a feather, but I did get to see her that night fortunately had made sure I put pictures of Rick and I, his son, Nicholas, and my two children, Andrew and Allison in my purse so I could show them off. I don’t know and I didn’t feel it was my place to ask her why she left I’m sure she had her reasons little did I know at the time that it would be another 30 years before I return to the church. Is the best thing I have ever done for myself I thank God every day for it.
I’m not mentioning any names however I know this couple and when his wife starts singing, her husbands facial expressions… busts me OUT LAUGHING! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s really hard to keep my composure… we used to get in major trouble as younglings if we laughed in ⛪️! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you very much for this consoling message, Fr. Mike! Initially, I'm afraid you was going to say 'please don't take your kids to church, what a distraction!' :) But then to hear this truly heart-warming message as 'come on home (church) with all (little kids/distractions, etc.) you've got to Me (God)', it really resonate in m heart. I was having my family and I in church weekly years ago, but not anymore, unfortunately, which really pierced my heart, but all I can do is to pray daily (whenever possible) to try to gather them all back home to church (whether if it's on my time or in God's time). But yes, regardless, nothing is more crucial than bringing our gifts (family) to the altar every Sunday to offer to God all that we really have in our life and to praise Him, the Almighty, living God. May the Lord, our God forgive me and bless all my families, and everyone else. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison. Amen.🙏
Thank you Fr Mike 🙏..God the Eternal and All present in the Holy Eucharist is the Fountain of boundless power and does things too grand to be understood by us.We need to pray for an increase in faith and love so we can fully understand and offer our sacrifice of worship that will bring us closer to Him.
Wow Fr Mike this makes me feel so much better. Sometimes i think i just because i have nothing better to do i watch on line mass because of lock down here in Melbourne, Australia, so after all im not doing wrong. Thank u Lord.
God bless you, Fr. Mike. Please know what hearing this means to me. Our children are both very young and have difficulties staying still. Both have diagnosed Austism Spectrum Disorder. I constantly feel like the person you described and often feel tremendous anxiety during mass, due to my own wounded pride and lack of peace. I will give that to God. Thank you for your leadership and please pray for all parents like me.
Oh gosh Fr Mike I was reading the book A Biblical walk through the mass by Edward Sri and it is what you are teaching us! Amazing. You have changed my life with BIAY and for the first time I am hungry to read more about my faith. God bless and I will continue to pray for you 🥰💕❤️🤗
Please pray for me, my precious, little, blue point Siamese cat, Andrew, died shortly after 8pm this evening, 10/20/2021. He was the most loving, gentle, affectionate, loyal, obedient, intelligent and downright doting cat I have ever known in my life. We were bestfriends for the past 14½ years! 😭💔 I offer my pain, and suffering up to the Lord for the conversion of sinners, and souls in Purgatory. 🙏🏻🕊💓🌹
3:47 (CCC 838 -- "With the Orthodox Churches, this communion is so profound 'that it lacks little to attain the fullness that would permit a common celebration of the Lord's Eucharist.'") "Worship is...an offering of self -- a sacrifice..." --Light for Life (Part 2) I was reading two older Eastern Catholic catechisms, Light for Life and Life and Worship: The Mystery of Christ Among Us, and I would like to add a couple points to complement what Fr. Mike is saying. First of all, the Eastern Churches do not have a view of Divine Liturgy as an obligation; rather, they see it as life-giving. Also, their view of salvation is as deification (or divinization, i.e., theosis). To Fr. Mike's point about sacrifice and salvation, the Eastern Christians believe that there is "no theosis without kenosis," that is, there is no participation in God's life without self-emptying. Therefore, the ultimate sacrifice is self-sacrifice for God: Thy Will be Done :) Thank you, Fr. Mike.
My parents used humor to handle problems of life. We'd be out at church or a restaurant, looking for a nice time out when a child would start crying. Dad's response? He'd say "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord." Strangly, the noise wasn't nearly as irritati g.
It’s kind of funny seeing little children at the TLM when their parents have to take care of one of their siblings because they were being fussy during Mass. You don’t get it often from the infants, but it is the 2 and 3 year olds that are quite wiggly if no one is there to watch them.
Well said! I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Received a shipment from Bishop Barron (Word on 🔥) yesterday and there was a seed included, yep I saw it…. Gonna get a pitchfork out and throw it up in the air… 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
i'm a foreigner and i love ascension present's videos and it changed my life a lot. But my English is quite bad, can you make English subtitles for some of your videos so that I and other foreigners can watch them more easily? Thanks a lot
When we go to church with pain of all kinds, we are giving to Jesus our trust. You are telling God you surrender to his will and are coming to him as you are at the moment. It could be with a heavy heart, sadden heart, lonely heart; the best you are doing for God is "God, I give you my heart and I trust in you"! Praise Jesus at all times because he a wonderful, merciful and loving God!
Well said! I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Saint Matthew 9:12-13 He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’I did not come to call the self-righteous but sinners.”
"The world will be a much worse place without your contribution. You are contributing to your race and to the generations to come. Like plants and animals, you give for the generations to come. You give all and you are spent at the end of your life. You gave all! Now you leave, happy. There is nothing else to do. But that giving cannot be natural within you until you have reached a certain threshold. It is both an empowerment and a surrender all at once. You are more self-directed, more in control of your own thoughts and behavior, but on the inside you are opening up. This can seem very contradictory, particularly to observers, but it is natural." A quote from - The New Message from God - *Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1* - by Marshall Vian Summers.
I would be very careful quoting Summers. He is a false prophet. Much of what he teaches is New Age and extremely heretical. People who take him seriously can very easily be led astray from the truth that Christ has revealed.
@@jack_skeean Thanks for the remark. Keep in mind that the same thing was said about Jesus in his time. But I understand from where you are coming from. There is much in the world today that portrays itself as benign but there is a world of difference between something looking good and being good. However, as a student of the New Message for over four years now, I have nothing other than deep respect and admiration for Marshall. And regarding the teachings he has brought into the world, I am certain that anyone with an open heart and a discerning and unbiased mind will see them for what they truly are. They have been sent now for every person who has the eyes to see and the ears to hear, but first they must look and listen.
@@ReverendDr.Thomas "The desire to hear the truth is something that is both a process and the result of true preparation. Developing the ability to hear and the desire to hear will yield to you that which you seek. The truth is utterly beneficial to you, but at first it can be quite shocking and disappointing to your other plans and goals. This you must risk if you wish to have the certainty and the empowerment that the truth will bring to you. The truth always brings resolution of conflict, always provides an experience of self, always gives you a sense of current reality and always provides direction for you to move forward."
I brought my son & daughter to mass from the day they were born. They’re 25 and 16 today and deeply rooted in Christ. I have no regrets, no regrets. It was so hard; especially when they were new born babies, especially with my boy. He wouldn’t sit still for 1 minute between the ages 2-3. I admit, one time, I pinched him silently 😱 on his thigh (sorry Jesus 😞). He got all teary but didn’t dare cry. After that day, he sat better & behaved. My daughter was always on her best behaviour, no issue. It was hard, but no regrets. Up until today, they both never miss mass. And we love to talk about the Readings & the Gospel after every mass. Nice. I love this. But I also never take things for granted, and so I pray every night; “Lord Jesus, keep both my children rooted at Your cross for the rest of their lives. Give them good Catholic spouses in that they will grow strong in their faith forever as a family with their own kids. Amen.”
So you didn't care that it bothered others, a whole room-full of people in fact? People bringing their screaming and yelling kids is the most selfish thing ever, they care neither about the kids, nor about all of the other people, only about themselves! They are too greedy to hire a baby-sitter and would rather torture their kids who don't want to be there and are just yelling and everyone else! Greed and selfishness dressed up as some sort of sacrifice.
@@ElenaKomleva hahahahaha….
@@ElenaKomleva how would you have children learn the importance of attending Mass without their actually attending? Given the current state of the world and the frighteningly low belief in God by today's young adults, I dare say that God would much rather have those raucous kids with their family in His house than sitting at home with a non-church-attending babysiter playing video games or watching TV. Better to develop the habit of attending church WHILE learning to respect peace and quiet for others' sake than to potentially never appreciate going to Mass at all. Perhaps graciously offering to help a struggling parent to quiet their child would be a better demonstration on your part that YOU have actually learned something from our Lord's teachings.
@@ElenaKomleva That was really cruel. Not everyone can afford a babysitter like you probably can!!!! You did not listen to Fr. Mike’s talk so you do not value that the children are in God’s holy presence. @ Love-divine please continue taking your child to Holy Mass. May our Lord Jesus bless you.
I needed to hear this! Thank you! When I have my baby and child at mass with me and if they're acting up I do feel bad that it may distract others, let alone me sweating and not hearing a thing from the service. I will now go to mass with the intention of offering my woes up. A couple of months ago a priest came up to me at the end of mass after my baby was particularly noisy and he said he loves hearing the young at mass and he put me at ease. 🙏🏻
At my Church it isn't TLM but it is, just the "ordinary" form, The Priest likes the kids for the homilies, to enrich it I suppose.
Without babies at Mass it’s a dying Church. There’s no way the Church can grow without babies. I love seeing babies at Mass because that means there are young people at Mass as well since most parents are relatively young. I am concerned that the vast majority at Mass have gray hair. Where have all the millennials gone? I pray that the millennials and gen x’ers will return because their eternal souls are in grave jeopardy until they do.
@Ashling S I had a priest tell me the same thing many, many years ago. And amazingly, my children began joining in the prayers at Mass by the time they were 3 years old. You do your children much good by bringing them to Mass and teaching them by example; your example of offering to God your children and your struggles.
My girls are now 4 and 5, and by now they have gotten used to Mass and they pay attention and stay relatively quiet. But Rewind to when they were newborns and young toddlers, and it was messy and noisy and I'd break into a sweat trying to make sure they didn't disturb anyone! For a while I wondered what I was getting out of church if i couldn't concentrate on the scripture and homily, but the answer was clearly the Eucharist. If I ever see a mom struggling, I give them a smile of reassurance because we've all been there! It'll get easier mama, hang in there 😉
So you didn't care that it bothered others, a whole room-full of people in fact? People bringing their screaming and yelling kids is the most selfish thing ever, they care neither about the kids, nor about all of the other people, only about themselves! They are too greedy to hire a baby-sitter and would rather torture their kids who don't want to be there and are just yelling and everyone else!
„The heart of religion is worship, the heart of worship is sacrifice“, very well said.
Amen
I like good spiritual teachers. I've never been the best at that .
8 don't always hate Jesus. When I think about what he gave to me I love him. When people think I should be crucified like him I hate him. He was supposed to do that so no other would have to die that way. I sacrifice every day I'm living. In death I would feel greedy and selfish.
By way of the Traditional Latin Mass.
I cry alot. I was taught some things that I see as sacred and others just ignore them and make me feel alone and cast away. I see you are happy. I wish I was. Being robbed makes me feel I'm going to starved to death and executed for nothing at all. Being robbed makes me feel my entire life's work is wasted . None of you care anything about me. I can see none of you know what I need. You ignore me and make me want to die. And sometimes even a bit sooner than I will if I had been treated better. I'm terrified. If you keep refusing to change I'm going to die. I never refused any offering. Nobody ever made one. Everything I am has just been discounted and my work left for dead. I don't know anyway that cries as much as me. I'm in the worst shape I've ever been. Just five years ago I was in the best shape I'd ever been in. Had they understood basic English I would have been in even better shape. Being in worse shape with nothing to look forward to but death is the saddest state you could ever put me in. I hope I kill myself tonight. It's better than living in this ultra depression you created and left me in. I don't want to see anyone. I don't want to go outside. I don't want to see who's outside. I want to lock the door lay down and die. I'm going to lock myself in my room and never open the door. If anyone tries to come in I'm going to cut my own throat so I never speak again. That's what you all gave to me. A reason not to live. A reason to quit and check out early. Thanks for never ending depression and death. I deserved better. I won't ever get it. Good bye. Forever.
SO true!!!
Sacrifice is the thing that unites us to God!
I remember my mom telling me when I was young that because she, in her youth, had taken care of several younger brothers, and because she had had her own eight kids, her least favourite chore was cleaning dirty cloth diapers in the toilet. But she offered this as a sacrifice to God by praying constantly, telling Him she was doing this for Him, while she cleaned the dirty diapers.
Unknowingly this was a life lesson well learned by me, because I ended up with a severely mentally handicapped son who was in diapers for 38 years (plus my other children). And I still clean up his dirty messes. I offer the sacrifice to God, but, God has blessed me because I don't seem to mind the work as much as my mom did.
Does anyone remember the old L'Oreal advert that ends with "Because you're worth it"? My son finds it tough going to Mass as he finds it rather boring, but thankfully he knows it's the right thing to do in order to worship the God. I love Fr Mike explaining that even his "boredom" can be offered up as a sacrifice. Each time we go to Mass we effectively say to God - BECAUSE YOU'RE WORTH IT!
Boy, did I need to hear this! I am a daily Mass attendee and have been struggling with distractions and feeling awful about it. Thank you, Jesus!
Ditto, Paula! Yes, indeed - thank you Jesus!!!!🙏🙏🙏
God bless you father
I always thought my struggle to focus during Mass and even during prayer time is a sin, and therefore my attendance to it means nothing. Lately during the pandemic so many worries have surfaced so there are plenty of times when I give up and just say, "Lord I'm so distressed right now, I offer my distraction to you." I feel so validated with this video, thank you Father ❤️
God bless Father Mike. I get emotional and euphoric during when the types The Rites of Eucharist Ritual is being said. But feel my heart racing during Prayer for Spiritual Communion. But feel 1/3 empty without the Consecrated Precious Blood of Jesus. 🙏🏼
God even allows us to unite our small annoyances and frustrations to the awesome Sacrifice of His Precious Son. His Mercy and Gentleness brings tears to my eyes. So much love, so much mercy. Thank you Fr. Mike! I will be putting this one in my favorites and watching it before Mass to be reminded of the purpose of worship.
Thank you Father
Since watching Fr Mike’s TH-cam videos on the holy mass, my life has been tremendously impacted by this holy priest! God bless you Fr Mike!
I think Father Mike is full of Holy Spirit your eyes Said for us
Thank you for this beautiful talk, Fr. Mike! Thank you for affirming parents who bring their kids in, people in pain like my Mom, and people like me who struggle with scrupulosity and need to know those million-thoughts-a-second not only aren't sins in themselves, but I can keep them from being sins and make them part of an even worthier prayer by offering them up to the Father. God bless you!
Heard this in one of your speech on SEEK conference (until now it is still saved here in my phone.) Thank you very much Fr. Mike. You really are such a blessing. Thanks a lot. Thank you is never enough. Btw im in Day 258 and im subscribed.( Im Praying for you, pls Pray for me!) God bless. Much love from the Philippines.
Thank you, Fr Mike! So good! Am learning and understanding a lot! I brought my children to church, my first born would walk up towards the alter and sometimes sit on the first step, we had an understanding priest that did not get upset. ☺️
Fr. Mike, I'm a cradle Catholic but I always learn so much for your videos and get to laugh as an added bonus!! God Bless you Father and your wonderful Ministry!! Keep up the great work!!
Wow, you are excited. I could feel the positive energy coming through. Reminds me of a prayer we say in AA "God I offer myself to thee to build with me and do with me as you wilt."
And all our life should be a worship to Our Heavenly Father, so what ever you do, do it/offer it as a sacrifice.
Many times I wondered what He wanted me to do, what was/is His will for me? Just doing what I have to do according to my calling and do it the best I can and offering it as a sacrifice. Offering ones mistakes, ones illnesses, ones joys, success but it is harder to offer up what is humiliating than what makes us look great. Sacrifice is the test of true love anyway. Thank you Father Mike. God bless and protect you. UOP.
Thank you Fr. Mike😇
God be with all of you.
I like the specificity with which Fr. Mike explains the facets of our faith in a way that balances simplicity, intelligibility, and complexity. Beyond that, I appreciate his passion for imparting divine truths to the hungry lambs of Christ. Thanks, Fr. Mike!
Father Mike you have a very special way to educate and convey the meaning of being a Catholic. You changed my perspective on Confession in a previous video. t feels awesome to learn all over again why we do what we do, thank you
I wish I'd known this earlier, because as part of the choir at Mass, I was always upset about not being able to pray after receiving Communion, since we'd then have to begin the Communion Hymn.
My mind would have obtained such peace if I'd offered this as a sacrifice :)
Thank you for this wonderfully explained video, Fr.Mike!
ohhhh! i joined the choir a month ago and not having a moment after communion to pray has also been in my heart. this is awesome!
@@gisole98 Then I'm sure this video will help you, here onwards. Also, staying back after the final song for a moment of prayer helps. God bless you!
Love this! Love this video, love the message.
This is exactly what I needed to hear after taking my 4 year old to Church on Sunday☺️
Praise be to God!
Amen, amen, thank you Father for your message.
God's peace and protection, Vivat Jesus.
"Amen - the name of a demon and one of the names of the ram-headed Egyptian god of life and fertility, Amon", its sad how you are so influenced and brainwashed by the satanic church.
Father, you have such a great way of making things clear. Thank you!!
I have been make adoration everyday at three oclock pm it is very good i felt God's love
Very swell, I had thought you said abortion at first,
Once again, inspiration for my day, and lots to think about. Thank you Father.
Very well said father God bless you
Thank you Fr. Mike, we appreciate your wisdom and encouragement .
What a beautiful soul you are Fr. Mike, may God bless you always.
Thank you Father so much for this.
God bless you father Mike
So great to hear this! Thanks Fr Mike ❤️
Thank you God bless Rev Father
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Amen, Father, amen.
That lovely Old Testament again, so in tune with the way we live today! How about sacrificing our first born to God?
On a serious note, a god that asks from you in order to feel loved, is a very insecure deity. 🧸
I don’t know if you’re the one reading these comments? I want to tell you Thank you Father Mike really really Thank you I have a daughter with special needs and yes I don’t go to church because of her. I seriously believe that God just showed me this beautiful segment to have me hear him through you telling me that I need to come back to church ⛪️. Thank you and Amen 🙏🏻 ❤️🙏🏻
Thank you ✨
such a great lesson because there is one of the priests at my parish that I can't hear and I am annoyed...now I know what todo...the reminder of why I a at Mass is very good indeed
Praise the Lord! You're Awesome Father Mike, Thank you so much!!!
After a two hour conversation with my mother, which was more faith-based than I had intended it to be, this was an interesting thing to hear. Part of my conversation with her was the fact that I only recall her taking me on my younger brother Rick, we were Irish twins to mass maybe four or five times the only other time I can remember my parents being in church was for maybe Easter Easter Sunday before we went out to brunch., or when one of the five of us was getting a sacrament. At the time we were in public school so we went to CCD on Saturday morning and what was probably a little early and it’s time after CCD was Saturday afternoon mass for the CCD kids. So we all went to mass and what was out larger size room. It wasn’t in the church itself but we had a very incredible young priest who we all just loved. We all went to church then five of us and if we were picked to take the gifts to the altar, thought that it was Christmas, what an honor. That was how it was at our house, and when we moved and became a member of a new parish, the same thing happened I had been. Rick and I had both been confirmed, and the rule went down that you had to stay in CCD until you were confirmed and then you could quit. I can remember wishing that I was back at Saint Andrews although as I think about it Fr. Hughes he was probably onto something else. Because I had always hoped that we would remain there long enough that I could be in his teen club. We had a great nun who had great ideas and and when we done so many things that she thought were proper and charitable, we were rewarded with a trip to see Godspell in Chicago or one night. “Don’t bother me God for I can’t cope.” She was a treat and a treasure but she left, and there wasn’t anyone who was interested in what the teenagers had the thing at that time. So it fell by the side it wouldn’t be until almost 20 years had passed. She was the aunt of one of my best friends. And her brother had died and so I went to the wake. I saw Tracy who was my friend and I said is sister Mugs around. And Tracy told me that she had left the church. You could’ve knocked me over with a feather, but I did get to see her that night fortunately had made sure I put pictures of Rick and I, his son, Nicholas, and my two children, Andrew and Allison in my purse so I could show them off. I don’t know and I didn’t feel it was my place to ask her why she left I’m sure she had her reasons little did I know at the time that it would be another 30 years before I return to the church. Is the best thing I have ever done for myself I thank God every day for it.
“It gives the father glory and absolutely saves the world” amen father 🙏🏾
I’m not mentioning any names however I know this couple and when his wife starts singing, her husbands facial expressions… busts me OUT LAUGHING! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s really hard to keep my composure… we used to get in major trouble as younglings if we laughed in ⛪️! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you Father. Needed this today❤
Thank you Fr. Mike be blessed
Beautiful message and words!!!
Never thought about bringing kids to Mass this way, thank you Fr for opening up this new perspective!
Thank you very much for this consoling message, Fr. Mike! Initially, I'm afraid you was going to say 'please don't take your kids to church, what a distraction!' :) But then to hear this truly heart-warming message as 'come on home (church) with all (little kids/distractions, etc.) you've got to Me (God)', it really resonate in m heart. I was having my family and I in church weekly years ago, but not anymore, unfortunately, which really pierced my heart, but all I can do is to pray daily (whenever possible) to try to gather them all back home to church (whether if it's on my time or in God's time). But yes, regardless, nothing is more crucial than bringing our gifts (family) to the altar every Sunday to offer to God all that we really have in our life and to praise Him, the Almighty, living God. May the Lord, our God forgive me and bless all my families, and everyone else. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison. Amen.🙏
Thank you Father Mike I learn something beautiful today AMEN
thank you fr mike... that was so reassuring ... i get so upset wen my grandson fidgets n distracts me during mass....now i know better
Thank you Father Mike. 🙏❤
Thank you Fr Mike 🙏..God the Eternal and All present in the Holy Eucharist is the Fountain of boundless power and does things too grand to be understood by us.We need to pray for an increase in faith and love so we can fully understand and offer our sacrifice of worship that will bring us closer to Him.
Praise be to God! Made my day hearing this!!!
I really liked your words. :) Thank you for encouraging us in our hardships and making them valuable. God Bless!
Wow Fr Mike this makes me feel so much better. Sometimes i think i just because i have nothing better to do
i watch on line mass because of lock down here in Melbourne, Australia, so after all im not doing wrong. Thank u Lord.
Why do I never think of these things. Thank you Father
Well said..AMEN
The heart of worship is sacrifice
God bless you, Fr. Mike. Please know what hearing this means to me. Our children are both very young and have difficulties staying still. Both have diagnosed Austism Spectrum Disorder. I constantly feel like the person you described and often feel tremendous anxiety during mass, due to my own wounded pride and lack of peace. I will give that to God. Thank you for your leadership and please pray for all parents like me.
Thank you so much, Fr. Mike. I wish I had this mindset 20 years ago with my little ones.
Amen ✝️ 🙏❤🙏 beautiful father Mike may God bless you keep up the good work
Oh gosh Fr Mike I was reading the book A Biblical walk through the mass by Edward Sri and it is what you are teaching us! Amazing. You have changed my life with BIAY and for the first time I am hungry to read more about my faith. God bless and I will continue to pray for you 🥰💕❤️🤗
Thank you for your videos, Father. They are always so very helpful.
I needed this to hear. thankyou.
Thank you so much for explaining this so well. It made me cry/
Thank you father Mike for this information
God Bless ❤ 🙏
Please pray for me, my precious, little, blue point Siamese cat, Andrew, died shortly after 8pm this evening, 10/20/2021. He was the most loving, gentle, affectionate, loyal, obedient, intelligent and downright doting cat I have ever known in my life. We were bestfriends for the past 14½ years! 😭💔
I offer my pain, and suffering up to the Lord for the conversion of sinners, and souls in Purgatory. 🙏🏻🕊💓🌹
Excellent
3:47
(CCC 838 -- "With the Orthodox Churches, this communion is so profound 'that it lacks little to attain the fullness that would permit a common celebration of the Lord's Eucharist.'")
"Worship is...an offering of self -- a sacrifice..." --Light for Life (Part 2)
I was reading two older Eastern Catholic catechisms, Light for Life and Life and Worship: The Mystery of Christ Among Us, and I would like to add a couple points to complement what Fr. Mike is saying. First of all, the Eastern Churches do not have a view of Divine Liturgy as an obligation; rather, they see it as life-giving. Also, their view of salvation is as deification (or divinization, i.e., theosis). To Fr. Mike's point about sacrifice and salvation, the Eastern Christians believe that there is "no theosis without kenosis," that is, there is no participation in God's life without self-emptying. Therefore, the ultimate sacrifice is self-sacrifice for God: Thy Will be Done :)
Thank you, Fr. Mike.
Thank you!!!!!!! ❤❤❤Amen & offer going to Mass today for Ascension presents 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Padre! This meant a lot to me!
Thank you father 🙏💕 my kids are ages 7, 5, 3 and to say I’m distracted during mass is an understatement.
The Word made Flesh! Amen Jesus Christ is the Word the living Word!
Thank you. Bringing little kids to Mass is a challenge to say the least. Thank you for this reminder :)
Yes!
So beautifully stated.
And if you bring your kids, they retain some of it some how. Thanks Fr. Mike.
My parents used humor to handle problems of life. We'd be out at church or a restaurant, looking for a nice time out when a child would start crying. Dad's response? He'd say "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord." Strangly, the noise wasn't nearly as irritati g.
Wow,this is life changing 🙏🏼
It’s kind of funny seeing little children at the TLM when their parents have to take care of one of their siblings because they were being fussy during Mass. You don’t get it often from the infants, but it is the 2 and 3 year olds that are quite wiggly if no one is there to watch them.
love that you included orthodox in there
thank you!
Love this💓💓💓
Fr. Mike has also used this language to explain: “The center of religion is worship; the center of worship is sacrifice.”
Thank you Father. The sacrificial nature of the Mass was virtually erased in post-Conciliar catechesis.
Exactly.
That was awesome!
Worship becane us freedom
The heart of sacrifice? Love. What is love? Doing good for one another without expecting anything in return.
Well said! I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
The heart of religion is love
Received a shipment from Bishop Barron (Word on 🔥) yesterday and there was a seed included, yep I saw it…. Gonna get a pitchfork out and throw it up in the air… 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
i'm a foreigner and i love ascension present's videos and it changed my life a lot. But my English is quite bad, can you make English subtitles for some of your videos so that I and other foreigners can watch them more easily? Thanks a lot
danggg...mind blown
When he said that bad music or singing distracts you from mass. Dang that hits home😂
That why we should demand that the priests stop allowing bad music and hymns.
Few Catholic congregations can carry a tune in a bucket. If we don't have a decent choir we should just skip the music.
#AskAscension Please would you make some short videos about young people and young families and interreligious dialogue. Thank you
When we go to church with pain of all kinds, we are giving to Jesus our trust. You are telling God you surrender to his will and are coming to him as you are at the moment. It could be with a heavy heart, sadden heart, lonely heart; the best you are doing for God is "God, I give you my heart and I trust in you"! Praise Jesus at all times because he a wonderful, merciful and loving God!
Well said! I’m publishing a weekly TH-cam video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you
Saint Matthew 9:12-13
He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’I did not come to call the self-righteous but sinners.”
"The world will be a much worse place without your contribution. You are contributing to your race and to the generations to come. Like plants and animals, you give for the generations to come. You give all and you are spent at the end of your life. You gave all! Now you leave, happy. There is nothing else to do. But that giving cannot be natural within you until you have reached a certain threshold. It is both an empowerment and a surrender all at once. You are more self-directed, more in control of your own thoughts and behavior, but on the inside you are opening up. This can seem very contradictory, particularly to observers, but it is natural."
A quote from - The New Message from God - *Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1* - by Marshall Vian Summers.
I would be very careful quoting Summers. He is a false prophet. Much of what he teaches is New Age and extremely heretical. People who take him seriously can very easily be led astray from the truth that Christ has revealed.
@@jack_skeean Thanks for the remark. Keep in mind that the same thing was said about Jesus in his time. But I understand from where you are coming from. There is much in the world today that portrays itself as benign but there is a world of difference between something looking good and being good.
However, as a student of the New Message for over four years now, I have nothing other than deep respect and admiration for Marshall.
And regarding the teachings he has brought into the world, I am certain that anyone with an open heart and a discerning and unbiased mind will see them for what they truly are. They have been sent now for every person who has the eyes to see and the ears to hear, but first they must look and listen.
@@oneworldonehome Don't believe everything you THINK. 🤫
@@jack_skeean In your own words, define “TRUTH”. ☝️🤔☝️
@@ReverendDr.Thomas
"The desire to hear the truth is something that is both a process and the result of true preparation. Developing the ability to hear and the desire to hear will yield to you that which you seek. The truth is utterly beneficial to you, but at first it can be quite shocking and disappointing to your other plans and goals. This you must risk if you wish to have the certainty and the empowerment that the truth will bring to you. The truth always brings resolution of conflict, always provides an experience of self, always gives you a sense of current reality and always provides direction for you to move forward."
ok, a couple of parts in this one made me lol!