Day 204: Summary of Sacrament of Reconciliation - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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In today’s nugget day, Fr. Mike reviews the major themes of the sacrament of Reconciliation. Fr. Mike emphasizes the six spiritual effects of this sacrament and reminds us of the great gift of Confession because, as the Catechism states, “to the eyes of faith, no evil is graver than sin.” We conclude today’s article with humble gratitude for God’s unfathomable mercy. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1485-1498.
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Thank you, Jesus, for setting up the Ministry of Reconciliation and giving the authority to your successors to forgive sins. Thank you, Jesus, for your unfathomable and infinite mercy. Give me a contrite heart before confession and help me to realise that there is no evil more graver than sin. Give me serenity of conscience and spiritual consolation after confession. Be my shield Lord to increase my spiritual strength for the struggle of Christian living. 🙏
Amen🙏❤️
Beautiful summary. ❤🙏
In Jesus Name, Amen ❤
Thank you Jesus for all the sacraments, especially penance !! 🇨🇦🙏🙏🇨🇦
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 7/23/2023.
Hello everyone & Happy Day 204!🙏😊
Hi 👋 Happy mcNugget Day, day 204🙏❤️I made it to vigil mass. So happy about that. Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.🙏❤️
🙋Elizabeth 😊Day 204 ❤🙏 Plans fell short for the vigil mass. I am heading to the 11:30am Sunday morning.
I’ve posted today’s reflection.🙏❤️
@@dianefrank3688Hope you made it to Mass.🙏❤️ Today’s reflection is posted.
@@TrixRN thank you Theresa!😘
Sin breaks the world. It is a worse evil than death; worse evil than suffering. The worst thing in the world, and yet we choose sin.
Let us go to Jesus, the Divine Physician with a heart of gratitude ❤ versus a heart of pride 😤
Gratitude & humility.🙏❤️
I do HATE my sins. I remembered very well when I went to confession at the beginning of the year 2021 I cried like a baby when I confessed my sins to the parish Priest. I have had written down every single thing / word. 😭😭💔 The Priest had to help me with my confession because I couldn't stop crying. God bless the humble Priest who have been listening to my confession since 2021.
Day 204 Nuggets day was a good day.
Thank you very much Father Mike and Ascension press. I am so, so thankful for the Priests especially the Priests who are so faithful and teach nothing but the truth. Lord God bless and protect Your faithful Priests.
Yes! Lord God bless & protect your faithful priests. Give them courage & steadfastness of spirit to follow You faithfully & to shepherd Your flock faithfully.🙏❤️
Amen
“Praying for spiritual strength to engage in the Christian battle “ Amen 🛐
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion have mercy on us and on the whole world. Most precious Blood of Christ save us ✝️🙏
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This is the Christian faith through the Catechism of the Holy Mother Church 👍
I heard this quote recently and thought I’d share it here on The Lord’s Day. Rest well everyone!-
Oh little men, escape from your everyday business for a short while. Hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. Break off from your cares and troubles, and be less concerned about your tasks and labors. Make a little time for God and rest a while in Him”-St Anselm of Canterbury❤❤❤
Beautiful quote. Thank you.🙏❤️
Did you see I’m posting a reflection on Marian Consecration everyday about this time, around 1:00-2:00 CDST? Please join in the comments.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN thank you! I have been reading them and will be reading today’s as well. Looking forward to it today.🌷
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Praying for Fr. Mike & CIY 🙏🙏🙏 Summary of Penance🥰
Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. God bless ❤🙏
❤🙏 Thanks
@@dianefrank3688 🙏❤
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I really liked it when he said be at peace with “that” in regards to not always feeling something coming over me after confession. Being at peace wherever God has me is an amazing goal! Thank you Jesus, the Catholic faith, Fr Mike and Ascension!
Yes!🙏❤️
DaY 204 ❤❤❤
A m e N ❤❤❤
Praise and GLory to the LORD
Father Mike, handsomeness, my brother in Christ. Thank you for the phenomenal journey with BIY
Blessings 🎉
Let's pray that confession becomes more accessible. Here in Canada it feels impossible to get confession 🤧
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼, prayers for greater separation from Sin.
My kids and I went to confession yesterday after all this awesome talk about reconciliation. Thank you, Father Mike.
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Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏
I felt emotion at the end of Fr Mikes talk. We need Grace; and Grace will pull us through. I look at it this way. We have doctors and patients. Sometimes the doctor becomes a patient. So, we have prayer through intravenous...invisible tubes attached; - to the Hospital of Jesus. We can't pull out the tubes; because: we don't like the Pope; the Bishop, the priest; the person next to us in church. We feed each other 7 fruits of the Spirit; and then we are healed; to pray for the next; and then; it is a cycle until the Hospital closes down; for no more sickness; no more pain; for we will be ONE; - as Christ is ONE with the Trinity. Amen
Beautiful!🙏❤️
I like your reflection. There have been good and bad popes, cardinals, bishops, and priest. The devil is always trying extra hard to sway a religious so we need to pray extra for them. Jesus always keep us close, please keep us from confusion.❤🙏🥰🙏
@@dianefrank3688 Oh, that is GREAT NEWS! Hah. I crash landed on the right spot on planet earth. Yippy!🥨🥨🥯🥯🍉🧀🧀🍗🍗🍗🍗🥩🥩🥩🥩
@@dianefrank3688That is so good, Diane. We have to pray especially fervent for our shepherds because the devil brings out the big guns against them. If he can turn a shepherd he gets the whole flock! Pray that our shepherds stay faithful, strong, & courageous.🙏❤️
@@MorreHopeYep, great spot to be alien, you fit in with all the other aliens.😅🙏❤️
I’ve posted today’s reflection if you want to go read it.
Glory and Praise be to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit❣️
Thank you so much Fr. Mike, and Ascension. As always, I am praying for all of you. God Bless 🙏🏻
Thanks Irene and I am also praying for you. ❤🙏
@@dianefrank3688 you're welcome. And thank you as well. 🙏🏻💜
God bless you Fr. Mike. So thankful for you.
“You who love the Lord, hate evil; He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers), He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.”
Psalms 97:10 AMP
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Thank you Father Mike praying for all brothers and sisters here
Day 204. 🙏🙏🙏
Praying for you, Fr Mike, and all. Praying for spiritual strength to face the daily battles of life. God Bless. Claire.
Amen! We definitely need strength in this day & age.🙏❤️
Thank you Father.
Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will. We praise You. We bless You. We adore you. We glorify You. We give You thanks for Your great glory. O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father almighty. O Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: you Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You Who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You Who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are holy. You alone are the Lord. You alone, O Jesus Christ, are most high. Together with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Amen! ❤🙏
Amen! Amen!🙏❤️
Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today 🕊🙏🏻🕊
Blessings to you, Mary. You’re so faithful to bless us everyday. Thank you.🙏❤️
Thanks Mary I an doing the BIY a second time. I am also in this group with you in CIY. I enjoy and am reallly getting a lot out of them. I will also keep you in my prayers.❤🙏
Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🙏
I am loving listening to and learning the effects of the sacraments. I always feel so much blessed after confession
Thank you Father Mike! Love nuggets day!❤🙏❤️
Thank you Fr.Mike. I need to go to Confession. Praying for strength to fight the Christian battle 🙏
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🌹☮️🌹Thank you🌹☮️🌹
Day 204..! summary.. Sacrament of Reconciliation.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Gosh.. I can’t even believe that we’re here.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I don’t even remember that day 203 was just yesterday.. a lot has happened between then and now..! God help me to approach confession again. MY priest was just telling us at Mass this morning that we need confession..! 😔😔😔 He will be there on Wednesday before and after evening Mass. ❤️❤️❤️ We can never say, ‘I didn’t go because I didn’t have time.’ He gives us plenty of time..! ❤️❤️❤️ I CANNOT WAIT to hear you tomorrow. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I’m praying formally of you, especially Fr. Mike and MY priest. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Please pray for me. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 God bless. ❤❤❤
Tnx Fr.Mike 👍🤗🙏➕📿🛐🔥📖🧡🧡
Thank you
Hi! im going to the sacrament of confession this coming saturday. Please pray for us🙏
AMEN 🙏.
Amen lord Jesus Christ 🙏
My wife's uncle who was the priest who married us, told us about one time when he offered general absolution to a group of men. This happened when he was in a landing boat into Italian coast during WWII. Within minutes of this absolution, several of the men had been killed. Praise God for dispensing his mercy and grace in critical situations, and in our mundane lives.
July 24, 2023
A great addition to Father Mike’s Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year is listening/watching EWTN Mother Angelica Live Classics. She speaks to us today to help us live right with God. Another suggestion is Saint Faustina’s Diary. I urge you to listen to or read her Diary to also help guide you in this life. Jesus I trust in You. #DivineMercy
May God bless you always 🙏
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God bless everyone. Love this summary. Thank you Fr. Mike and Team Ascension Presents
Greetings Father Mike,
Thoughts :-
-> Message reflect with, "The Sacramental Reconciliation helps to positively reaffirm Penetient - Priest relationship with Faithful Intercession before Lord Jesus Christ in The Holy Church in every sense in all aspects of One's Own Life."
-> Thanks Father, Team Ascension Press for Wonderful Message.
With regards and Prayers,
Ranjith Joseph (R.J)
Thanks!
You bet!
Thank you for your support of Catechism in a Year!
Amen 🙏❤
Here's another good night of teaching yes I want peace and Grace healing thank you Father Mike for doing this I pray for the community and for you and for all and a good night and an amen and God bless🙏🙏♥️
AMEN 🙏.
amen
Amen
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A Very powerful explanation of sin and confession. 👍🙏🏻
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Your Song of the Day: “You Are My Strength”- by Spencer Roth.🎶 th-cam.com/video/YuMaBDjSA4c/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this beautiful song it is so calming and reassuring,
Another great song. 🎶❤️🎶The wide range of songs you post is impressive. Thanks, Elizabeth.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN thanks Theresa!😊
Very beautiful song to end this section on Confession and repentance.
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Boy those were GOOD nuggets😊❤
let's knock out some nuggets!
Love the McNuggets day!😄❤️🙏❤️
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Day 204 takeaways: SUMMARY OF THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE- Why do I have to confess my sins to a priest? Because that’s the way God set it up. Jesus gave the authority to bind and loose sins to the Apostles and their successors. I the Sacrament of Confession we find God’s unfathomable, and INFINITE Mercy. It’s a heart of pride that does not want to humble themselves to receive the gift of the Sacrament of Confession. It’s a heart of gratitude and humility that says, “Lord, I HATE sin. Thank you for the gift of this Sacrament. NO EVIL IS GRAVER THAN SIN. Conversion entails sorrow for sin with the firm purpose of sinning no more in the future. There are six effects of the Sacrament of Confession: 1. Reconciliation with God. 2. Reconciliation with the Church. 3. Remission of eternal punishment as a consequence of mortal sins. 4. Remission in part of temporal punishment incurred by sins. 5. Peace & serenity of conscience & spiritual consolation. 6. An increase of spiritual strength to face any future spiritual battles.
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Amen 11-8-2024
July 24, 2023
Please pray for Souls in Purgatory. Go ahead, just take about 30 seconds to help save a soul that maybe is your family member or friend! Go forth and help save! Here is the prayer:
(According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory.)
The Prayer of St. Gertrude
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
God would reply to St. Gertrude that He would use whatever was offered to Him for the faithful departed, according to His inclination to show pardon & mercy.
Day 204
_To the eyes of faith no evil is graver than sin and nothing has worse consequences for sinners themselves, for the church and for the whole world_ (1488)
God made the whole good and completely intact. There was no suffering...
And then original sin breaks the world. We now experience a lot of evil and suffering. And not everyone gets physically healed even though Jesus is the divine physician.
We have to see with the eyes of faith that there is no graver evil than sin. Suffering and death are not good and God did not intend this.
*But we have to remember there is a worse evil than death and suffering. And that evil is something I choose which is called Sin.....*
CCC 1492 ". If repentance arises from love of charity for God, it is called "perfect" contrition" QUESTION: What does "love of charity for God" mean?
We are truly sorry for having offended God; our realization that our sins are an offense against God Who has only given us love and mercy. This is why we want to confess our sins through the sacrament of Reconciliation.
This is perfect contrition vs I'm sorry for my sins because I don't want to go to hell.
@@pam7533 Thank You
@@pelawren Agree with Pam. Also, the phrase "love of charity" more precisely defines the meaning of "love" in this context, since that English term has many meanings including: 1) a love motivated by a selfish end, 2) a love motivated by mutual benefit, and 3) a self-less love directed toward the other, which is charity. The selfish love seeks is motivated to avoid hell. The love of charity is directed to being one with God.
@@KenDonovan-jw2jk Thank You
Pam 7533 said: no one can force us to do anything. That's why we have martyrs."
Dying out to ourselves; is martyrdom. I had written on the hospital; and intravenously we are all connected; even a prayer; for the sickness that is in the hospital of the Kingdom of God. Parabellum.
"The K. of God suffereth violence; and the battering ram takes it by forth. I put battering ram; because: it is not a war against children to enslave; but to free the inner child. Peace comes with a price. Self. Freedom to bear. Alone.. Do you want to be free?
So basically we still are not forgiven 100% even though we do all of this confession, there's still some responsibility that we have to still indoor
That is not correct, as Christ forgives the sin 100% during Confession (CCC 1496). The key is to understand that forgiving the sin is distinguished from the need to repair, or remit, the many harms caused by the sin. Confession forgives the sin AND repairs the most significant eternal harm by restoring relationship with God. But Confession obviously does not repair all the temporal harms caused by the sin, so the forgiven sinner has responsibility to repair those harms to the extent possible. An obvious example is a forgiven thief should make amends to the person he stole from to return the material goods and heal that relationship. The sin of theft also harmed the virtue of the thief, so he should work to build virtue to help resist the temptation to steal again. A theft is a bad example to others (a scandal), so the forgiven thief should work to correct that bad example. Instead of thinking of this as "enduring" that responsibility to repair temporal harms, think of it as the grace to improve and heal to live like Christ, loving your neighbor as yourself. And that grace is made possible by the Confession, per CCC 1496 "an increase of spiritual strength for the Christian battle."
To give another example.....your son is playing ball in the house. The ball hits and breaks a lamp. You FORGIVE your son and tell him so. BUT......there is still a broken lamp......is your son off the hook just by your forgiveness, or do you have him make amends....ie: clean up the mess, or time out, our no computer for 3 days.....it does not end with forgiveness.....reparation is necessary for justice and it helps us grow and learn.
@@KenDonovan-jw2jk thank you God bless
@@trudyfriedrich7416 thank you God bless
@@KenDonovan-jw2jk Thank you for taking the time to give this nice explanation. I think it will hel;p a lot of people. ❤🙏
Me in confession:
Since I've never been to confession before, let's just keep it simple and assume I'm done everything at least once. So load me down with Hail Mary's and I'll be out of your hair.
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The spiritual battle of choosing God's strength by foregoing idolizing your own. 😢 Hey that's hard! The prayer life life centered on humility.
For me and all participating in CIY:St Raphael the archangel please bind the demon asmodeus and beezlebub and demons of lust, broken relationships, gluttony, pestilence,and disease. Send them to Jesus for immediate sentencing for the glory of God. St Michael the archangel please bind the demon Lucifer and Leviathan and belphegor and demons of pride, envy, government, debt, and sloth. Send them to Jesus for immediate sentencing for the glory of God. St Gabriel the archangel please bind the demon Mammon and Satan and demons of greed, wrath, injustice, lies, and death. Send them to Jesus for immediate sentencing for the glory of God. Guardian angel please bind the demon Satan, belphegor, Mammon, asmodeus, Leviathan, Lucifer, beezlebub, and demons of wrath, injustice, lies, death, sloth, greed,lust, broken relationships,broken families, envy, government, debt, pride, gluttony, envy, pestilence, and disease. Send them to Jesus for immediate sentencing for the glory of God and my sincere conversion. Mary please send a special troop of warrior angels to bind all devils effecting me and my husband and my family, send them to Jesus for immediate sentencing for the glory of God.
For me, my husband, my family, and the whole world, especially me and my husband: My adorable Jesus, may our feet journey together, may our hands gather in unity, may our hearts beat in unison, may our souls be in harmony, may our thoughts be as one, may our ears listen to the silence together, may our glances profoundly penetrate each other, may our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father.Amen.💜
Amen🙏❤️
@@TrixRN Hi Theresa I did not make it to the Vigil mass so I am trying for the 11:30am Sunday morning at the mission church.
If after we are done naming our sins, we say, “ for these sins and the sins of my past”, does this suffice and therefore no need to state in a confession again if for some reason the reminder of the sin “of the past” presses in on the heart later?
I’m not referring to scrupulosity here I don’t believe. I’m only curious if one must go again if the exact sin comes to mind although was absolved by stating at the end of the confession, “for those sins and the sins of my past”?
Help please. 🙏🏻😬
I think you will have to ask a priest for sure and then you might get different answers. When I askied a priest in the confessional he said if you did not purposely hide them, they are forgiven, but if I wanted too I could state them again but it was not necessary. iT DOES SUFFICE
Great question. Something I have been wondering about, too.
If it was a mortal sin forgotten, it’s covered; but it’s a good idea for humility & growth in sanctification to mention it in next confession. You don’t need to go back just for that though.🙏❤️
P.S. I don’t believe it’s scrupulosity, but it is, if you keep going back to just confess sins you forgot. Does that make sense?
My dilemma, which cannot be reconciled, is the fact that we do not choose whom we love or what we believe. I may go through life not believing in a god. That is not my fault.
You are always in my prayers, the fact that you keep coming back means you are sincere in your search for truth but the Catechism is for those who have been baptized and accepted Jesus as their Lord and savior. I suggest you read up on the early Church fathers but if that is too early for you then try someone more modern like CS Lewis or GK Chesterton. Coming here without context may come off as disingenuous and troll like even if that is not what you intend as you claim you do not because as I said this is mainly for those who have been baptized. Your comments would be better answered on more theological centered channels like Jimmy Akin or Inspiring Philosophy or Catholic Answers or Counsel of Trent. God bless
@@SydneyCarton2085 I don't "get" Chesterton; he is way too brilliant for me to grasp. But he has a way of writing that re-centers one's whole view of the world. I find Lewis a lot easier to grasp, but somehow, Chesterton is the one that moves me in terms of how I see the world.
Would you like to find away to change all that?
@@grmalinda6251 You can't.
@@rjskeptic5273 I didn't say I could.
Are you at peace being the way you are?
Pope Francis needs to go to Cardinal Sara for confession
We're ALL sinners in need of Confession.
@@MorreHopeour Pope need’s desperate prayer for the way he is leading us into Grave Sin!
@@MorreHopePope St Peter repented after St Paul confronted him for his erroneous complicity to “Proud” Jewish Believers in the Church ! We need humble Jewish believers desperately now in the church to actually lead us now in the memory of the Holy Spirit’s work to love Jesus, keeping his Commandments! Pope Francis is not staying humble like St Peter by listening to Holy Apostles like Cardinal Sara who are compassionately upholding our Moral Responsibility to Jesus’ call to live Chastely!
@@michaelniehaus3276 DO RESEARCH.
@@MorreHopeSeems you are the one who should do research on this topic.
💜🤍🌹MARIAN CONSECRATION🌹🤍💜 Day 11
Consecration to Jesus through Mary
“Come, Holy Spirit, living in Mary. Renew the face of the earth, so that all creation may return to God.
The Immaculata Always Does God’s Will, Perfectly
We learned about the intimate union between the Holy Spirit and Mary, the uncreated and created Immaculate Conceptions. This means Mary does the will of God perfectly. To put this into context we look at the big picture of reality.
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, all of creation makes one big, circular movement from God and back to God, referred to by theologians as “The Great Circle of Being.” All creatures come forth from God & when they tend to their *proper* end return to God. Also called the “Exit & Return.”
St. Maximilian describes this big picture structure of reality in a similar way. God creates the universe; that is something like a separation (exit.) “Creatures, by following the natural law implanted in them by God, reach their perfection, become like him, and go back to him. Intelligent creatures [human beings] love him in a conscious manner; through this love they unite themselves more and more closely with him, and so find their way back to him. He believed the “Immaculata“ who never contracted the slightest stain of sin, who never departed in the least from God’s will, united to the Holy Spirit as His spouse, she is one with God in an incomparably more perfect way than can be predicated of any other creature.”
A reflection on this reality: Consider all of creation. Plants & animals fulfill their nature by being what they were created to be, instinctually. Human beings usually act by reason & will, we’re conscious of ourselves. “This is what it means to be made in the image of God: We can know God and love him. And whereas the animals do God’s will by instinct, we can do his will freely and consciously.”
We can also abuse this freedom God gave us. We sin; don’t choose to do God’ will. If we don’t repent, we don’t make it back to God. But He sent His Only Son & His Spirit to bring us back to God, our Father in heaven. And He created a creature without the smallest blemish of sin, perfectly conformed to His will, & perfectly united with His Spirit who can help us. Thanks be to God!
We offer up our prayers & devotions to acquire knowledge of ourselves with a spirit of humility.
St. Louis de Montfort says: Ask the Lord & the Holy Spirit to enlighten us. “Lord, let me know myself.”
“Turn to our Blessed Lady and beg her to obtain for them that great grace which is the foundation of all others, the grace of self-knowledge.”
St. Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us.🙏❤️
The part on departure and return pares so well with today’s nugget day and the recent days on reconciliation. In confession, we find our way back to Him in such profound ways. And the grace and peace He imparts as we continue working toward a deeper relationship is so filled with love. It’s very circular but also like an upward spiral toward Him.
Thanks Theresa! These circles reguire a little bit more reflection than The Circle of Life from the Lion King movie. Thank you for posting the explanations so clearly. ❤🙏
@@marsharr2877Exactly! I think that might be how St. Maximilian described it, a spiral that brings us closer to God each time we fall & humble ourselves to admit our mistakes, sins, & return to Him. Our Lady then helps us remain on that path & if we entrust ourselves & all our merits to her she keeps them safe not to be lost when we stumble.
@@dianefrank3688They are difficult concepts. We don’t think in those terms of plants & animals returning to God. However, it makes a certain sense based on Paul’s writing in Romans 8:19-23
19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; 23 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
As another poster said here we fall away when we sin, but we are drawn back into that circle to God on an even higher plain when we repent & confess. It’s more a spiral upwards as long as we’re faithful to return if we fall.
Our Lady then helps us stay on the path of holiness & keeps our merits safe from loss when we stumble.
@@TrixRN That is why the consecration of ourselves and our spiritual & material goods is so necessary. One of the exorcist stated that this was the best way to protect ourselves and our goods. Thank you for digging into extra books and files so as to present this material to us in a most understandable way. ❤🙏🥰🙏
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