My achilles heel! I was so vain about my intellect and physical/athletic prowess as a teenager and young woman, but working with people who had intellectual and physical disabilities cured me of that! It was like learning to love humanity as God loves us, and it was very confronting. This is one of your best, Father. Great stuff.
I am insecure, so I often act out to get attention from others, so I am the center of attention. Being autistic, I don't have any "filters" and commit social blunders. Moreover, when corrected, I act out even more. This can be anything, from silliness to acting holy. Is there nothing I can do sincerely? Please please pray for me! I am trapped by insecurities..... I know this is wrong. I feel horrible, especially when I hurt someone I love by it!
God loves you, and so do I. this kind of situation is hard for many to understand, because they don't understand how hard it really is. And how much we don't wish to be that way. Even in the Bible Jesus and the Apostles were healing Mental Illness as much as Physical. People tend to over look that. I am not autistic, but I do have mental illness that I often feel shamed for. Honestly with all the trouble you seem to have. I think you are doing an amazing job trying to live up to what God asks. How easy is it to live as he asks with a clear head? They struggle too, but they don't have this cross. And if anyone tells you they don't have insecurities.. they are lying to themselves. We all have them.. people like you and I just can't hide it as well. I know I have a lot of short comings, and often don't say or do the right thing. I want to but it often comes out wrong. So I have made one promise to God, to Jesus.. that I still uphold to this day... The promise was.. to Not give up, no matter how many times I trip and fall... I will keep going. I will not stop trying. Even if I have to crawl... I will follow to the best of my abilities. I have also fallen into the practice, that if I have a bad day. I Thank God at the end of it for helping me get through this day, and Pray for a greater success on my next try. Don't forget... God is with you.. Always. Your Guardian Angel is always with you... always... to prove that... God Loves you and you are Precious. Don't give up. Give it to God. God Bless you!
Litany of humility is a beautiful prayer that if practiced daily helps us become more aware of our vanity & pride. Thank you Fr C for guiding us with a sense of humour 😂
Vain people are self conscious, but I'm not convinced self conscious people are vain. Remember Father was talking about the motive, what is that I WANT? People who are vain want attention for themselves and don't give regard to others. Anyways, that's my psychoanalytic interpretation of vanity and self consciousness. I see no sin in being self conscious purely on its own, but then again I'm just some guy. Peace!
@@alexsiryj You're right! Being self-conscious in a positive way is being self-aware. That's why I said it "can" be a form of vanity. We need to be self-aware, to "Know Thyself" but always in relation and subordination to God.
Not to inflate your pride, Father, but you are the best spiritual advisor! Every time I have a big question rattling around in my brain, there you are with the answer!
I don't know if those who had an especially critical childhood, deprived of affection and love from parents, that may be a cause (my personal feelings) why some people desperately cling to the praise and positive attention of others, in order to satisfy a need for self-worth and love. All praise and thanksgiving be to God alone Who is good!
Wow Father, when you described these imaginary tales we make up in our minds to feel good about ourselves, I felt so called out 🤣 But seriously vanity is a terrible vice of mine. The worst is when I do a good spiritual deed the first thing that comes to my mind is “oh wow you’re so holy”, or I constantly worry if people think I am a good Catholic or not. It’s terrible but I try to reject it as soon as it comes, the way I try to do with any other temptation. What you said about laughing of ourselves is a very good tip actually. When I catch myself having these vain daydreams, reminding myself I am a bit silly and really not that exceptional definitely helps. 😊
Thank you Fr Columba. I had to stop myself from ruminating on my hurt and angry feelings so I prayed to Jesus about it then I meditated a bit and during that meditation I remembered you. So I took that as Jesus answering my request for his guidance. God knows I watch you on TH-cam and when I came on this video showed up. God knows me and I am so thankful for the grace he gives to me everyday. Thank God and Thank Jesus
Great Talk Fr! My Pride causes me to follow the one who cannot tell the truth but can only lie and to reject the one who cannot lie but can only tell the truth! 😩 It also makes me big and God small (if that were possible) 🙉 And Vanity …. Yikes Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy On Me a sinner 🙏 I need Humility…. Urgently!
Great vid Fr Columba! Keep me in prayer please - I almost died but am out of hospital and doing well on the mend. Ive got the prayer of the St Fidelis Friary here in London, please join in and intercede for me too! Pax! Max
I sat on a dock and watch the expanse of the ocean and sat beneath Gods glorious sky and listen to your sermon. It added depth to your teaching and I was able to reflect on my often vain and prideful nature and be honest all while being inspired by the work of our father, who art in Heaven. Thank you, sir.
All I can think about is Morgan looking at you sideways. Literally and figuratively. Probably laughing and thinking how blessed she is to work with you.
Thanks Fr you totally cracked me up. Should I be honored to have to accept pride and vanity, as a thorn in my side from God? I work to be humble and... pop, there goes a pride ride! It's almost full time. It just seems that the Lord has left this rotten vice in me to overcome and become His Glory. Meanwhile I plug away. God bless you and love you. T.
Great job! Thanks be to God! That pool that collects good things reflects images... poor Narcissus, he didn't have a chance. But we have been warned.😅 When we are in the flow of God's love, there is no need to have good things collect. We're giving it away just as it comes to us. Think manna in the desert.
How much more will the Heavenly Angels rejoice on the wedding day of Christ and His Holy Church, His bride, if all the Heavens rejoice when one soul returns to The Lord . What a feast is that to behold, a celebration that lasts for eternity.
I loved this talk, your beard is glorious and ALL thanks be to God! Seriously, thank you Father, you've given me lots of meditate on ! May God bless you interiorly and give you His Peace.
Love all your talks! No matter the subject you bring a laugh along with it, which reminds me of my late Dad! So thank you for that and God Bless You for always making me smile! 😊
As usual father Columba hits another home run thanks to God glory. Appreciate your work so much Father. By the way Jerry your plant in the background is doing great thanks to God for that as well. God bless you and you brothers and sisters
Whew did I need this one. Sometimes I feel insecure about one thing and I’ll try to boost my own confidence about something else to balance things out. All the while forgetting that without Christ at the center of the fulcrum, I seesaw between self deprecation and self glorification. When I just focus on Christ, I stop worrying about myself so much and balance is achieved. Father, your advice about “acknowledging what you’re good at, remember who gets the credit and move on” is the most sound advice I’ve heard in a long time. I imagine my solution to the self depreciation problem is probably to take the same relative advice.
I can see / absorb the lack of ego of this fellow & with it also the fulsome ness of personality. I spotted immediately - that’s what’s attractive . The attitude to the wonder of god, illuminates a person to wholeness.
Vanity can be the opposite too. Thinking so much about what others think and being so self conscious... Thinking you are the worst, that you are all these negative things. I know... it's one of my constant struggles. It leads to unhealthy fears and anxieties that just disturb the peace, as one might say. ... Not everyone is born "beautiful" by human standards. So it can be very hard. Because the world is cruel about it. But remembering that its what God thinks that is most important helps you come back from that kind of suffocating vanity/pride. P.S. the sin of Envy Loves people like this.. that jerk eats us for lunch I tell you. Envy is not always AT the other person... it can also go inward towards yourself (suicided thinking everyone is better off without you... is an outcome of this). So.. yeah.. God Help us from our own selves against these jerks! Thank you! Amen. I really love all your messages... Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you, Father! (if your beard is ever a "stumbling block", just think about St. Maximillian Kolbe's beard - THAT is an awesome beard! 🤣)
Plenty to contemplate here for a musician. I hope you will do more videos on personal success and failures. It’s a deep topic that can lead to “paralysis by analysis “. Thank you Fr. God Bless You.
How timely of you. Of God. It's amazing how He can tend to His people in so many different ways. I appreciate your talks, they resonate with me. I love the idea of using humor when I catch myself tripping on "whatever" as opposed to kicking myself around because I'm yet again failing. We are a funny breed. And yes, you have a glorious beard, no harm in confirming that!
St. Francis would say, make me a channel and of your peace. Oh Master grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my soul. For it is in dying to ourselves that Christ is born in us. And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
🙏🏻🕊❤️🔥Yes! May we always remember that all good things come from God alone! ❤️🔥🕊🙏🏻 yes dear Father, vanity and pride is my main fault…i have a good laugh about my silly vain thoughts….it’s good to talk to Jesus about our weakness, to laugh about it and to thank Him for the kind reminder…that we are not and He is. joyfully, gratefully and prayerfully yours +in JMJ+ 🙏🏻🕊❤️🔥🕊🙏🏻
Thank you Fr. C for this video. What a coincidence that Ecclesiastes (the main book that speaks on vanity) is the one book I fail to understand the most lol
It *is* an amazing glorious beard - I used to have one a lot like it. Perhaps I ought to grow it again and give God glory for allowing me to grow such a fine thing! It seems as good a place as any to start, given the serious lapses, right across the board, in everything else I do. Something for me to think about. Thanks, Father Jordan.
Aw, those siblings. Talk about taking the fun out of dysfunctional! Thankfully, the Lord has always been able to show me clearly how un-great I am, lol. Once I opened the door, I knew only that I deserved Hell. A sobering thought indeed. I'm still trying to find the good, something I do well. Apart from Him i can do nothing. All of the Glory belongs to God, of course, and the thanksgiving and praise. I'm still trying to learn humility though. Because I hear that my anger issue is a form of pride. ? Help.
I think I’m called to marriage and struggle with vanity and envy, and being self conscious. How can women approach their appearances modestly in this regard? I often want to exercise in order to become better looking so that when we get married, the man I marry won’t be disappointed. That’s something I struggle with, but it feels like a damned if I do, damned if I don’t type of thing. I don’t want to hurt myself by feeding into vanity or the idea that I’m not enough unless I look a certain way, but I know men are visual and I have such an internal dread of that potential face of disappointment on my husband on our wedding night. Please help and pray for us.
Thank you very much for this one. In general I do OK with pride and giving the glory to God but with vanity, I really want others to like me and think I do well. This really helped
your eye brow, cheek bone and great beard!!! What marvelous beauty! Add the accent. Thank you, God, for such a pleasant sight. But most of all is the great ab workout I have when watching these videos. I think I feel the beginning of a six pack. Only thing is, I have to remember not to be drinking or eating anything! May God bless abundantly for choosing to be a priest, the ultimate gratitude from any person.
Vanity and pride are the strangest things to me. For me to fall to lust, I need to see something, when I am roused to anger something needs to happen to me to set me off. Pride and vanity though? Nothing. I don't even need to look at myself, I can just imagine myself. The funniest part about it all is just as soon as I see myself as a mixture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Napoleon Bonaparte and Jesus Christ rolled into one, I fall down to thinking how I am a low and vile worm, good for nothing, will never amount to anything, forever to reach for God but never to grasp him. How strange it all is
Yep, your beard is glorious. But more... thank you Fr Columba for communicating so clearly. I needed to hear what you had to say, through your heart. I am one of those lost sheep who heard didn't hear God in the church I grew up in, Unitarian Universalism, and so left Christianity entirely to wander through yoga and Zen, where I began to hear God. Where I first heard Jesus calling to me. God, working through Fr Columba and those who you support through your work here--I am looking for support, for a church, for a teacher. Do you have an idea of where I might go to find help in Catholic Bible study, prayer, and maybe somehow, some day, the true conversion I seek?
Dear Andrew, it is wonderful to hear from you, and we would love to help you in any way we can. Of course there are lots of online resources we can point you to, such as Fr Mike Schmitz’s podcast “Bible in a Year”, you might enjoy the shallow app for prayer, we have covered prayer a lot on this channel, etc. As for in person help and guidance, are there any Catholic religious communities or churches near you? Do you want to let us know where you are based and we can have a quick look? Bless you, Friend.
Dear Fr, I don’t know if you’ll read this. I’ve been agonising about my livelihood which is teaching about natural anti-ageing. How vain and self-obsessed can we get! Im a former beauty therapist and a ‘born again’ Catholic. Im listening to your videos also about discernment with avid interest. I am now living a sacramental life and praying daily. Is it possible to continue a career in anti ageing or is this against Scripture right out of the gate? Thank you for your videos Fr Columba. God bless you.
My achilles heel! I was so vain about my intellect and physical/athletic prowess as a teenager and young woman, but working with people who had intellectual and physical disabilities cured me of that! It was like learning to love humanity as God loves us, and it was very confronting. This is one of your best, Father. Great stuff.
I am insecure, so I often act out to get attention from others, so I am the center of attention. Being autistic, I don't have any "filters" and commit social blunders. Moreover, when corrected, I act out even more. This can be anything, from silliness to acting holy. Is there nothing I can do sincerely? Please please pray for me! I am trapped by insecurities..... I know this is wrong. I feel horrible, especially when I hurt someone I love by it!
God loves you, and so do I.
this kind of situation is hard for many to understand, because they don't understand how hard it really is. And how much we don't wish to be that way. Even in the Bible Jesus and the Apostles were healing Mental Illness as much as Physical. People tend to over look that.
I am not autistic, but I do have mental illness that I often feel shamed for.
Honestly with all the trouble you seem to have. I think you are doing an amazing job trying to live up to what God asks. How easy is it to live as he asks with a clear head? They struggle too, but they don't have this cross.
And if anyone tells you they don't have insecurities.. they are lying to themselves. We all have them.. people like you and I just can't hide it as well.
I know I have a lot of short comings, and often don't say or do the right thing. I want to but it often comes out wrong. So I have made one promise to God, to Jesus.. that I still uphold to this day... The promise was.. to Not give up, no matter how many times I trip and fall... I will keep going. I will not stop trying. Even if I have to crawl... I will follow to the best of my abilities.
I have also fallen into the practice, that if I have a bad day. I Thank God at the end of it for helping me get through this day, and Pray for a greater success on my next try.
Don't forget... God is with you.. Always. Your Guardian Angel is always with you... always... to prove that... God Loves you and you are Precious.
Don't give up. Give it to God. God Bless you!
Litany of humility is a beautiful prayer that if practiced daily helps us become more aware of our vanity & pride. Thank you Fr C for guiding us with a sense of humour 😂
You are so welcome.
Being self-conscious can certainly be a form of vanity! To God be the glory and if we fall, I'm sure He will pick us up!
good one!~
Vain people are self conscious, but I'm not convinced self conscious people are vain. Remember Father was talking about the motive, what is that I WANT? People who are vain want attention for themselves and don't give regard to others. Anyways, that's my psychoanalytic interpretation of vanity and self consciousness. I see no sin in being self conscious purely on its own, but then again I'm just some guy. Peace!
@@alexsiryj You're right! Being self-conscious in a positive way is being self-aware. That's why I said it "can" be a form of vanity. We need to be self-aware, to "Know Thyself" but always in relation and subordination to God.
Not to inflate your pride, Father, but you are the best spiritual advisor! Every time I have a big question rattling around in my brain, there you are with the answer!
Praise God! Thank you, Denise.
Gerry has reason to be vain - look at those spring flowers! I hope he's thankful to his caregiver.
😁
I don't know if those who had an especially critical childhood, deprived of affection and love from parents, that may be a cause (my personal feelings) why some people desperately cling to the praise and positive attention of others, in order to satisfy a need for self-worth and love. All praise and thanksgiving be to God alone Who is good!
Wow Father, when you described these imaginary tales we make up in our minds to feel good about ourselves, I felt so called out 🤣
But seriously vanity is a terrible vice of mine. The worst is when I do a good spiritual deed the first thing that comes to my mind is “oh wow you’re so holy”, or I constantly worry if people think I am a good Catholic or not. It’s terrible but I try to reject it as soon as it comes, the way I try to do with any other temptation.
What you said about laughing of ourselves is a very good tip actually. When I catch myself having these vain daydreams, reminding myself I am a bit silly and really not that exceptional definitely helps. 😊
Thank you Fr Columba. I had to stop myself from ruminating on my hurt and angry feelings so I prayed to Jesus about it then I meditated a bit and during that meditation I remembered you. So I took that as Jesus answering my request for his guidance. God knows I watch you on TH-cam and when I came on this video showed up. God knows me and I am so thankful for the grace he gives to me everyday. Thank God and Thank Jesus
Wonderful!
Great Talk Fr!
My Pride causes me to follow the one who cannot tell the truth but can only lie and to reject the one who cannot lie but can only tell the truth! 😩
It also makes me big and God small (if that were possible) 🙉
And Vanity …. Yikes
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy On Me a sinner 🙏
I need Humility…. Urgently!
I think God blessed you with being a good preacher and great voice 🎉 thank you Lord 🎉
Thanks for listening.
Don't tell him that, don't want him to get proud 🤣🤣
Great vid Fr Columba! Keep me in prayer please - I almost died but am out of hospital and doing well on the mend. Ive got the prayer of the St Fidelis Friary here in London, please join in and intercede for me too! Pax! Max
I too will pray for your health Max. Pray you are right as rain soon!
Thank you. I needed this today. All the glory to God!
“Howdy, folks!”👋 As a Texan, this made me smile!😊
Howdy, Fr. Columba!👋
Howdy!
Your beard is Glorious.
😂🙏🏼
Love your humor father on a tough subject!
Thank you.
I sat on a dock and watch the expanse of the ocean and sat beneath Gods glorious sky and listen to your sermon. It added depth to your teaching and I was able to reflect on my often vain and prideful nature and be honest all while being inspired by the work of our father, who art in Heaven. Thank you, sir.
"God is always to the left"😂
Glory be to God for the amazing work that you do Father and to the team!🙏
Amen
All I can think about is Morgan looking at you sideways. Literally and figuratively. Probably laughing and thinking how blessed she is to work with you.
Thanks Fr you totally cracked me up. Should I be honored to have to accept pride and vanity, as a thorn in my side from God? I work to be humble and... pop, there goes a pride ride! It's almost full time. It just seems that the Lord has left this rotten vice in me to overcome and become His Glory. Meanwhile I plug away. God bless you and love you. T.
Boy, vanity can sneak up on you when you least expect it😳I know. God disabused me of it…FAST! Thank God & glory to Him alone.🙏❤️
I love watching your videos. You're humble, you have a great sense of humor, and your videos are helping souls grow closer to the Lord. THANK YOU!
Did I manage something good??? Well, thanks be to God for His grace!
Amen.
Philemon 1:6 - That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of EVERY good thing which is IN YOU IN CHRIST JESUS
Great job! Thanks be to God! That pool that collects good things reflects images... poor Narcissus, he didn't have a chance. But we have been warned.😅
When we are in the flow of God's love, there is no need to have good things collect. We're giving it away just as it comes to us. Think manna in the desert.
How much more will the Heavenly Angels rejoice on the wedding day of Christ and His Holy Church, His bride, if all the Heavens rejoice when one soul returns to The Lord . What a feast is that to behold, a celebration that lasts for eternity.
I loved this talk, your beard is glorious and ALL thanks be to God! Seriously, thank you Father, you've given me lots of meditate on ! May God bless you interiorly and give you His Peace.
I think in scripture a beard is a symbol of wisdom right ? 😊
@@David-_-_- obviously!
I love the humour mixed in with philosophical biblical wisdom , and your beard is glorious praise the lord for it !!!!
Haha thank you all round!
Word.
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Love all your talks! No matter the subject you bring a laugh along with it, which reminds me of my late Dad! So thank you for that and God Bless You for always making me smile! 😊
As usual father Columba hits another home run thanks to God glory. Appreciate your work so much Father.
By the way Jerry your plant in the background is doing great thanks to God for that as well. God bless you and you brothers and sisters
You are so darn funny! I just love you 😊. God Bless and protect you.
Haha praise God, glad you are enjoying the content :)
Vanity , my biggest fault , thank God for you and reviling this to me ❤just what I needed to here praise God ❤❤❤
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Whew did I need this one. Sometimes I feel insecure about one thing and I’ll try to boost my own confidence about something else to balance things out. All the while forgetting that without Christ at the center of the fulcrum, I seesaw between self deprecation and self glorification. When I just focus on Christ, I stop worrying about myself so much and balance is achieved. Father, your advice about “acknowledging what you’re good at, remember who gets the credit and move on” is the most sound advice I’ve heard in a long time. I imagine my solution to the self depreciation problem is probably to take the same relative advice.
I can see / absorb the lack of ego of this fellow & with it also the fulsome
ness of personality. I spotted immediately - that’s what’s attractive . The attitude to the wonder of god, illuminates a person to wholeness.
Vanity can be the opposite too. Thinking so much about what others think and being so self conscious... Thinking you are the worst, that you are all these negative things. I know... it's one of my constant struggles. It leads to unhealthy fears and anxieties that just disturb the peace, as one might say. ... Not everyone is born "beautiful" by human standards. So it can be very hard. Because the world is cruel about it. But remembering that its what God thinks that is most important helps you come back from that kind of suffocating vanity/pride.
P.S. the sin of Envy Loves people like this.. that jerk eats us for lunch I tell you. Envy is not always AT the other person... it can also go inward towards yourself (suicided thinking everyone is better off without you... is an outcome of this).
So.. yeah.. God Help us from our own selves against these jerks! Thank you! Amen.
I really love all your messages... Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you, Father! (if your beard is ever a "stumbling block", just think about St. Maximillian Kolbe's beard - THAT is an awesome beard! 🤣)
I had to look him up, I am not Catholic (but I want to be) and I have to respectfully disagree, Father Columba's beard is the winner!
Haha very generous of you!
Good point!
@@doxiemom95 Yes, please join our Catholic Church Family!!
Hello Fr. I love the pelargonium in the background. Such a thankful flower to have.
Thank you.
Plenty to contemplate here for a musician. I hope you will do more videos on personal success and failures. It’s a deep topic that can lead to “paralysis by analysis “. Thank you Fr. God Bless You.
Lots more content in this area coming up. Thanks for watching!
Yes, your beard i amazing and glorious. Praise Jesus for it!
I think your beard is glorious, praise to the LORD for giving you glorious beard genes!
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Exactly! Who needs glory anyway. If we live for God and focus only on Him who cares about such earthly things! All glory to God forever ❤
Sweet, thank you for giving it to us from the heart with gentleness
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Thanks be to God for your amazing beard! Fr Columbo, you're the best. Thanks be to God for that too.
Bless you.
Vanity and lack of humility. I'm working hard on these vices! The Littany of Humility is such a great help. Thank you Father. Praise the Lord! 🙏🏿☘️
How timely of you. Of God. It's amazing how He can tend to His people in so many different ways. I appreciate your talks, they resonate with me. I love the idea of using humor when I catch myself tripping on "whatever" as opposed to kicking myself around because I'm yet again failing. We are a funny breed. And yes, you have a glorious beard, no harm in confirming that!
"Oh child, seriously...." Ba ha! GUILTY!
God is the best and most amazing!
Thanks for the tips. More for us to consider. 👍
Glad it was helpful.
You have a glorious beard, father!
Thank you Fr Columba..God bless you.
Same to you!
Thank you, Fr Columba. Great talk and helpful-especially the bits about having a laugh at ourselves. All glory to Jesus.
Glad you enjoyed it.
St. Francis would say, make me a channel and of your peace. Oh Master grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love with all my soul. For it is in dying to ourselves that Christ is born in us.
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
beautiful
Great talk Great beard
The beard is absolutely glorious. You're a gem!
Wonderful video. Thank you, I needed this.
I think your personality is glorious
I enjoyed your thoughts on these vices Padre, Thank You.
You’re welcome.
I really appreciated this one - especially the nuances between pride and vanity and how to humbly but cheerfully deal with it in the moment.
Thanks for watching.
🙏🏻🕊❤️🔥Yes! May we always remember that all good things come from God alone! ❤️🔥🕊🙏🏻
yes dear Father, vanity and pride is my main fault…i have a good laugh about my silly vain thoughts….it’s good to talk to Jesus about our weakness, to laugh about it and to thank Him for the kind reminder…that we are not and He is.
joyfully, gratefully and prayerfully yours
+in JMJ+
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Cool beard... seriously thank you for your ministry
God bless you.
God bless
And you.
Thank you for these videos, Father. Glory to God!!
'To God Be the Glory "
I'll remember 'The Pizza' to give God the Glory.
That's Fr. Columba ❤🙏
You’re welcome.
Thank you Fr. C for this video. What a coincidence that Ecclesiastes (the main book that speaks on vanity) is the one book I fail to understand the most lol
You have to best beard I have never seen !
This is quickly becoming one of my fave channels! God Bless you 🎉❤😂
Thank you. So glad to have you here.
Thankyou Fr Columba , Glory to God
It *is* an amazing glorious beard - I used to have one a lot like it.
Perhaps I ought to grow it again and give God glory for allowing me to grow such a fine thing!
It seems as good a place as any to start, given the serious lapses, right across the board, in everything else I do. Something for me to think about. Thanks, Father Jordan.
You’re welcome.
Amen 🙏🏼
Amen
Glad I got recommended this channel :)
So are we! Great to have you here.
Amen Lovely Fr Thank you God-bless you ✝️. 🙏❤️🙏
Same to you!
Great work Father and the team. A helpful and true talk on pride and it’s little brother vanity, our greatest challenges
Glad you found it helpful.
Your beard is glorious! 😜
😂
You’re beard is really glorious father 😄 there you go 😁
Aw, those siblings.
Talk about taking the fun out of dysfunctional!
Thankfully, the Lord has always been able to show me clearly how un-great I am, lol.
Once I opened the door, I knew only that I deserved Hell.
A sobering thought indeed.
I'm still trying to find the good, something I do well.
Apart from Him i can do nothing.
All of the Glory belongs to God, of course, and the thanksgiving and praise.
I'm still trying to learn humility though.
Because I hear that my anger issue is a form of pride.
?
Help.
Thank you!!! :)
You're welcome!
I think I’m called to marriage and struggle with vanity and envy, and being self conscious. How can women approach their appearances modestly in this regard? I often want to exercise in order to become better looking so that when we get married, the man I marry won’t be disappointed. That’s something I struggle with, but it feels like a damned if I do, damned if I don’t type of thing. I don’t want to hurt myself by feeding into vanity or the idea that I’m not enough unless I look a certain way, but I know men are visual and I have such an internal dread of that potential face of disappointment on my husband on our wedding night. Please help and pray for us.
I love your beard!!! ❤❤
To God be the glory!!!
Amen
Haha.... yes I like your sense of humor!
Thanks for watching.
Thank you very much for this one. In general I do OK with pride and giving the glory to God but with vanity, I really want others to like me and think I do well. This really helped
Thanks for sharing. Love the beard!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
your eye brow, cheek bone and great beard!!! What marvelous beauty! Add the accent. Thank you, God, for such a pleasant sight. But most of all is the great ab workout I have when watching these videos. I think I feel the beginning of a six pack. Only thing is, I have to remember not to be drinking or eating anything! May God bless abundantly for choosing to be a priest, the ultimate gratitude from any person.
You’re so cute! Love the dimples!❤
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Great recollection!!
Loved this! Thank you, Fr. Columba Jordan!
Thanks for watching.
beautiul.
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Amen
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Father, I see you play the guitar! Would love to hear some of that!
Thank you father for this! ❤
You are so welcome!
It is a glorious beard.
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Vanity and pride are the strangest things to me. For me to fall to lust, I need to see something, when I am roused to anger something needs to happen to me to set me off. Pride and vanity though? Nothing. I don't even need to look at myself, I can just imagine myself. The funniest part about it all is just as soon as I see myself as a mixture of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Napoleon Bonaparte and Jesus Christ rolled into one, I fall down to thinking how I am a low and vile worm, good for nothing, will never amount to anything, forever to reach for God but never to grasp him. How strange it all is
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You make this stuff fun!
Glad you enjoy the content.
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Great advice, thank you!
Yep, your beard is glorious.
But more... thank you Fr Columba for communicating so clearly. I needed to hear what you had to say, through your heart.
I am one of those lost sheep who heard didn't hear God in the church I grew up in, Unitarian Universalism, and so left Christianity entirely to wander through yoga and Zen, where I began to hear God. Where I first heard Jesus calling to me.
God, working through Fr Columba and those who you support through your work here--I am looking for support, for a church, for a teacher. Do you have an idea of where I might go to find help in Catholic Bible study, prayer, and maybe somehow, some day, the true conversion I seek?
Dear Andrew, it is wonderful to hear from you, and we would love to help you in any way we can. Of course there are lots of online resources we can point you to, such as Fr Mike Schmitz’s podcast “Bible in a Year”, you might enjoy the shallow app for prayer, we have covered prayer a lot on this channel, etc.
As for in person help and guidance, are there any Catholic religious communities or churches near you? Do you want to let us know where you are based and we can have a quick look? Bless you, Friend.
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Dear Fr, I don’t know if you’ll read this. I’ve been agonising about my livelihood which is teaching about natural anti-ageing. How vain and self-obsessed can we get! Im a former beauty therapist and a ‘born again’ Catholic. Im listening to your videos also about discernment with avid interest. I am now living a sacramental life and praying daily. Is it possible to continue a career in anti ageing or is this against Scripture right out of the gate? Thank you for your videos Fr Columba. God bless you.
Just think, we now have entire festivals and months of the year dedicated to 'pride'. Our society is lost and confused
We must pray for people.