The Real Measure of a Christian
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Beautifully put. When I joined the Church I was told not to say "I am a Christian", but "I'm becoming a Christian" - becoming is a lifelong process
What if you die before you've actually become a christian?
I’m sorry if I’ve ever judged you based on things that I’ve read. Your videos have really helped me navigate Catholicism from a kinder perspective.
i usd to be very judgemental of Catholicism because of how i learnt history. and yet by actually learning about church history I've learnt so much more about how good the church has been, not just the accusations of the world that while holding a little truth historically, are not a good view of the church at all. even then, ive been learning so much more about catholicism and other denominations and it opens my eyes and heart to them, even if i dont agree with everything they believe
@@michaelrhodes1981you mean faith seeking understanding (connecting with their reality)
This is beautiful! I'm a Christian. I never considered myself protestant because I was never in protest against the Catholic Church. I'm currently in the process of becoming Catholic. I'm excited and plan to be there best Catholic and Christian that I can be. God is first. ❤🙏
praying for you!! welcome home!
I think it's important to note that one doesn't have to be perfect to be an authentic Christian. Everyone has things they should work on - if we wait to be perfect before we are Christian we'll find that it will be impossible before death.
Kayla. Absolutely
Having been through a coma twice, and Jesus telling me He's not done with me here on earth and in reality of living my Faith: there's always room to grow. From conception to natural death. Thanks, Father Casey. Appreciate your channel. ❤🙏✌️
The title scared me for a second, great video!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart Friar Casey! Your words speak to my mind, heart and soul. Everytime I listen to what you have to say, I learn, I gain new insights and wisdom.
I still have room to grow, to transform. To convert. I'm a Dutchie, living in the north of the Netherlands and I haven't been baptized yet. I am on my way to becoming a baptized Christian.
All I know for sure is that God is calling me and pulling on my heartstrings. Jesus is there for me. In love and during all my struggles. Even if I am not there yet, my heart is in the right place and by grace of God I will keep growing - He led me down this path of imitating and being in relation with Christ, with the living God 🙏🏻
Beautifully put, Father - thank you. One day I would like finally to be authentically Christian!
May the Lord continue to bless you richly. I am grateful for this reminder-thank you.
i was just having this conversation with my girlfriend the other day about how I truly want to live my faith because of what God has done for me in my life. God Bless You All 🙏🏼
Thank you, Father. This is one I’ll watch again and again. It goes perfectly with the OSF rule of daily conversion.
As a candidate in OFS, I am learning about continual conversion.
This is why I love the reality of sanctification, it keeps us humble, knowing we’re not done, but also beautifully that God is not done with us yet!
We are works in progress. I certainly am.
As the days grow shorter,
Let us extend Your light to others.
As the days grow colder,
Let us warm someone's heart with kind words.
As the days slowly pass,
Let us run to pick up Your cross.
And, as the days deepen into a fading year,
Let us, this day, bring Your Truth to the surface.
Thanks for sharing Father!!
I’ve learned so much!!
I love the fact that you’ve reminded Saint Francis spirituality!
I’m current in the process of confirmation in the Catholic Church and this whole time I’ve really been struggling with anxiety and wrestling with God about mortal sin and feeling like He’s just gonna throw me out like a piece of garbage even tho Ik that’s not true.
When I was Protestant I would share the gospel whenever I could but bc of this anxiety being a Christian has been way harder. I want to be like the saints but I feel like what I’ve been going through makes helping others impossible. I can’t even take the Eucharist yet and honestly I just feel like the life I used to have has just been squeezed out of me. Please pray for me. I even got anxious watching this video knowing I haven’t been doing enough by a large margin. Bless ya
The letters Paul writes show his journey. As his letter writings ages … his later writings go on to say how much less worthy he is over time.
This is a realization of many who follow Christ … that what they do is not enough and how unworthy we are of the sacrifice Jesus made of himself. That it’s only his infinite mercy that saves us from our stubbornness to follow in every way.
When you experience the sacrament of confession, make note of how it feels the first time to actually voice your sins to the church. You will be surprised about how you feel after
Remember, you’re not asked to be perfect, you’re asked to try - that’s all. We all fail every day. But keep trying. Look at the apostles. They messed up all over the place. Yet Jesus kept working on them. Trust him to do the same with you.
God bless you refreshing as always and at the right point
Superb message. Thank you
Thank you as always Father Casey. You have a gift for saying what I need to hear when I need to hear it. Also, thank you for reaching out to me on TikTok 🙏🕊️🙂
Thank you, Father. I really needed this.
Father Casey, you’ve done it again! You got my hackles up then turned right around and showed me how wrong I was to have my hackles up in the first place. 😆 Thank you for the nuance, grace, and deep reflection you bring to this topic.
Thank you brother for all that you do for Jesus and his holy church 💒💯🙏🏽
Yet another video that this Free Methodist minister can say amen too! We are never done growing in Grace until we are called home. We should always be humbly listening to His voice, the voice of the Spirit, as He continually works to change us.... I would only say that as we do this, we can rest secure in His Grace.
@@michaelrhodes1981 How in the world would you know what I have studied?
I assume you are Catholic? I would have thought that you would have been more charitable to a fellow Christian saying good things about a prominent Catholic TH-camr - in spite of our differences.
Furthermore, I wonder if you have ever heard of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral? I mention this because, unlike many Protestants, we DO value tradition. The difference is that we subject everything to Scripture as the highest authority. Beneath Scripture, we hold both reason and tradition to be of great value - and we judge experience by all three. So to say that I am willfully ignorant of these things simply isn't accurate. In fact, in my studies of apologetics I am spending time studying the early Fathers.
One of the things that I really appreciate about Fr. Casey is that he values the contributions that evangelicals have made to the entire Body of Christ. In the same way, I appreciate that contributions that Catholics have made. We serve the same Lord. There is one Lord, one Faith and one Baptism (Eph. 4:5). Should we discuss our differences? Absolutely. However, we should do so as brothers, not as enemies.
That is not how Christ acted. We are called to initiate Christ, not attack and divide.
Imitate*
@@benjaminweber4332 Spell Check 😁😁😁😁
Thank you, Fr Casey. You hit the nail on the head with the hammer. Life long journey! Perhaps print this out & allow each person to keep this next to their heart.
What would be the purpose of printing text and keeping it close to the organ that pumps your blood?
Great video!
This was a perfectly needed video
Thx Fr Casey
A beautiful topic for this all saints day. Thank you.
Great video. Thank you
Happy Thanksgiving fr
Beyond excellent! This was the theme of my homily last Sunday. Would Tertullian be able to say today what he did in the earliest days of the Church: “ These Christians, see how they love one another!”?
Considering the state of our country and world……no
I'd like to use this same message in my protestant church.
I don’t think Fr Casey would mind if you did! It’s relevant to all denominations
@@michaelrhodes1981 What a belittling thing to say to someone who wants to share a good message.
@@michaelrhodes1981 I'm not a Chjristian so Matthew really doesn't mean anything to me.
This is so good!!!❤🙏🙏🙏😇🤗 thank you Fr Casey
Good one, Friar Casey... And simply put, the message actually made me feel like "well, isn't that what st Francis preached as well? "
Yes we sometimes need a smack on our head not to think of "I am holier-than-thou" thoughts but "what should we do" instead... And throughout life, it is clearly a journey
This, with "are you a Saint" by Quinton L. Cook, give me a lot to think about and to which I must listen to again soon enough to check my own process, privilege and patience within our Lord's kingdom. Thank you, father, for all what you do, especially all you share herein TH-cam. Funds are low right now, but the offer to share a drink with you, if you should ever come to my town, is always open. Until then, God bless.
For people leaving hate:
what is the point? Your solving nothing nor helping anyone make good decisions. kindly go do something else instead of stirring the pot. We don’t need bait
People have emotions sometimes no one to express them to
Me a teenager and loving this!!! Latin Mass lover too!!!❤❤❤❤
I've been waiting for a long time to write in the comments under the Franciscan video...
Hehe! Okay...I love you all! Take care of yourself! God needs you healthy and happy, so that nothing distracts you from serving him! And besides, knowing God is a happy travel!✝✝✝✝💓💓💓💓💓💓
One of my favorite lines is “there is always room to improve.” That applies to everything we do. There is always room to be more Christ-like!
My respect❤
i needed to hear this so badly, thank you so much
Being a good person is not a destination, it is a process that we strive and work for until death....
Father Thanks for sharing.
this is probably your most important and best video, as an orthodox Christian i have mad respect for this video and what you said. thank you for enlightening me today :)
What does "Orthodox Christian " mean to you?
@@OliveMule the eastern orthodox church and its tradition
thank you father casey im trutly humbled by your video.
Judging from the outfit, I gotta go with, “Already a Christian.”
I promised myself that before baptism that I'd be as truly Christian as I could. But I was wrong: I was doing it without the help of God! I fail and I stumble, but every moment God catches me and whispers His love and encouragement to me.
For this leg of my journey, I now know that for me to be truly and authentically Christian, I must rely on God's good help - and of course all the saints and angels, and our beloved Holy Mother!!
Faith and Works ....one cannot work without the another
My younger brother is one of people who got baptized but doesn’t live the word please pray for him
After many years away from the faith I decided to get closer to God again, and I have to say your videos have really contributed to that. You handle important questions with such kindness, that it breaks some important stereotypes and wrong ideas I had when it came to Catholicism. Sadly yesterday my company fired a lot of people due to some sort of policy change, and I was one of them, but I'm still trying to find wisdom in that. Maybe it's a chance to spend a bit of time in a more frugal way and look within.
So god made your company financially insolvent so that they had to fire a bunch of people all because god wanted to teach you about frugality? Is that what you're saying?
@@sledzeppelin first of all, it is not "my company". It does not belong to me in any way. I am talking about what happened to me.
@@vtop1c I meant “the company you work for.”
Love is patient, love is kind
It does not boast, it does not rely upon itself
Make me patient, make me kind
Take my love, may it not run dry
(Hillbilly Thomists)
Honestly, I just pray for suffering. I figured I'm going to suffer anyway but when I prayed for it I find meaning in it. Through experience I concluded If you ask for suffering and follow Christ you will be ordered to make the Church a better place.
Being in initial formation for the secular franciscans I agree about constant conversion
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There always will be work to do as long as we are on planet 🌏 earth we must begin with ourselves
Very true. I'm reading Pythagoras right now, and see how much he's lacking. I see the same thing with Confucius and Socrates, too. It's amazing how much the tradition we have is true. I've made a complete investigation of it, and cannot see it any different. The Gospel is true. But as regards me, the more I learn, the less I account myself worthy.
true of everyone myself too God bless
A spiritual vocation is my redemption.
Amen Father, amen!
Ive been watching for quite awhile now and your intelligence level and grasp of language never ceases in blowing me away...what do you attribute it to? Were you a baby einstein?
Thanks father ✝️🙏❤️🔥
I have a real issue with public speaking unfortunately ~ had the opportunity to lead the rosary before Mass but simply cannot overcome that phobia. 🥺😔
I agreed to do a reading and almost passed out from anxiety thinking about it while kneeling at mass...I never did the reading.😢
Thank you, Father, thank you.
Hi Father Casey, you're absolutely right - i've asked myself if my daily thoughts & deeds align with Jesus's requirements?
None of us could ever match & Jesus knows this - so HE will be our judge in the end. 😉.
If we are faithful to our covenants with God we will be Justified through Christ and his righteousness will cover our shortcomings as a mantle.
I agree with all of this, Father, but what does this say about the consecrated religious who spend their lives in prayer but who do not go out into the world? They don't seem to fit the pattern of what you are saying and yet so many of them have become canonized saints.
Father Casey, would you explain what the RCC believes about those who died without knowing about Jesus, those who lived before his birth, and the millions who have lived after it without having the opportunity to hear the Gospel?
I'll add it to the list. I think it's a good question for future videos.
I'm a weekly mass goer but still have room to grow. I know for a fact, I'm not worth of Christ currently. I still have habitual sins I'm working on getting rid of.
Am I a Christian? Well I can feel and see the Holy Spirit working in my life and since being saved I have this overwhelming need to seek the understanding and truth in scripture. Though I 'm currently living in a extended care and rehabilitation center I have found a men's mission just down the street from me that I'll be volunteering at once I'm well enough. So yes I would say I am a Christian, a follower of Christ. At 75 years old He's not done working on me yet.
this is some way that I want God to keep working on me. living intentionally is difficult, but Jesus is with me
What can be said about the Christians who allow other Christians to be thrown to the lions in the workplace?
None of us are true, perfect Christians. But that's why it's called practicing our faith.
Hello Brother Casey Can you respond to my comment? I am a fan of yours❤
Word.
How refreshing, considering some other religious sites…….
It can be very challenging. Which just as the priest started off, easy said, but it can go against our nature to be other person oriented.
This helped me understand Catholicism and tradition. For Catholics, clearly, Christian is just a title of a people who are marked by traditional symbolic acts - and then the faith and works part comes next. Protestants, however, consider someone only to be Christian when they are saved through faith, which then leads to works. These are the same things, and it is more of a linguistic issue. In my opinion, Catholics ought not call people Christians who do not believe in Christ, because that's the normal use of the word nowadays - We need to either make a new word to describe what protestants would call "luke-warm" or "dead" Christians, or we need a word to describe the marked "Christian" people within the Catholic church (I think simply "Catholic" would be appropriate and align with what people already know).
2 people appear to be equally good people publicly…..one a Christian and one an atheist…….so speaking the words “Jesus is my Lord and Savior” confirms you as the Christian!
Amen!
Your layout within the first two minutes makes it clear that we really have *no idea whatsoever*, nor ever will, if anybody's really headed for Heaven or Hell in the end: many of those therefore who the church has confirmed to be in Heaven may well not be; and many of those who the papacy has legitimately declared to be unable to get to Heaven may well be in Heaven- indeed, it is absolutely more than likely that many of the canonized saints will be found on Christ's left side due to their words having done harm to people many many generations post their own canonization- and thus all canonization is only proof that the person is not permitted to be prayed to; due to the evils that have ended up coming out of their writings many thousands of years after they were confirmed to be in Heaven- due to harm to one or more of these little ones: something that Christ Himself declared in no uncertain terms to be an absolute death-sentence, especially for those who've already been admitted into Heaven.
Humility is what those communities emphasize, and humility is therefore far more poisonous than any pride; as it is *humility* that teaches modern man to hate God for God's superority, since the church fathers couldn't see that, nor could the apostles, none of them, nor God Himself, could hope to be in Heaven, as their words have opened the door to hatred of *That* Neighbor of ours for His majestic status, as is right and good due to how they convey Him, and have; at all, at any time in Church history!
Do you lean toward most will be damned or saved?
Moses was not able to enter the holy land during his life.
As a non-Catholic and non-Christian, I wonder what Catholics believe happened to the souls of those before Jesus or contemporaneous to him, before he was known. For example, it took hundreds of years for his worlds to travel throughout modern Europe, it took more than 1000 years to hit Japan, for example. What was the post-death path for Moses (i.e. definitely a G-d favorite but also eons before Jesus’ birth)? What about the Japanese in 500 A.D.? They were after Jesus’ death but no one on that side of the world had yet learned about his existence, let alone teaching.
In a brief explanation, we Catholics declare and believe in our sacred held creed that Christ descended into the world of the dead (sometimes translated as Hell, but NOT the place of Hell for the eternally dammed) and rose after three days. That day we call Easter Sunday. Why did He do this? To release souls of those already dead but who could not have known Christ who was not yet born. If they were good and just souls, they probably then had to be purged and cleansed of any spiritual impurities before they could enter Heaven.
@@gmahlman Are you saying that for the three days between the crucifixion and his reappearance that he went to purgatory to move them u0, closer o G-d? Jews don’t have a concept of hell. They believe that the more one sins, the farther away from G-d the soul will start, after death. Each year, on the anniversary of the death, the soul is believed to have ascended another ring to be closer to the divine.
I recently asked a group of Christian friends a question about the resurrection and I didn’t get a similar answer amongst them. Some of them even went to their father leader and their faith leaders gave different answers. When Jesus “resurrected” did he resurrect in full corporeal form or a metaphysical form? Several believes said he resurrected in physical form but NOT in his own body because his disciples did not recognize him when they physicalllt saw him. It has been quite a few months since I had this conversation but I do remember that learning that there were only a few sentences in the Bible about his resurrection and those sentences are inconsistent.
Good video, friar Cassidy!
I am atheist, but love monks, i know many names specially from MCM (Medieval Catholic Monasticism).
And i love monk channels, and yours too! (I was subscribe real)
I wish you and all your monk friends will be safe and sound and happy! God bless you!
Sincerly Elina the atheist, who love monks!
Jesus is calling you:)
@@carmiprieto2326 Oh interesting...
How did you know this?
Okay, I'm sorry... I just didn't expect to read such a comment! Heeey X)
(By the way, i glad to hear it, it's sounds so cutie!)
Fr Casey is not a monk
@@donnamccormick6980 Yes? He's not franciscan? But who is? And yes, then sorry... I even don't know this╮(╯-╰)╭
But if we cannot call ourselves Christian, who will? At what point could we tell we actually "met God" in our life? Isn't the Gospel meant to be a good news and a reassurance of His love? 🤔 I'm not saying having doubts and striving for some kind of improvement is bad, but if we fill our life with these "insecurities", when will we ever experience the Kingdom of God He promised us?
Well, just because someone is a Christian in terms of belief, especially about teachings, does NOT even come Close to meaning they're even likely to go to Heaven: citation: the tragedy of Lucifer- that being *absolutely* believes all of the church's teachings, so it categorically has all manner of graces available to its kind of creature; and it absolutely has faith, even the virtue; but it is the *only being* we know *postively* by name to be in Hell- so it is categorically unwilling to behave as it should!
God bless all monastic orders! And yours!
Minorites will be forever!✝✝✝✝✝✝💓💓💓💓💓💓
Don't forget about all st. Francis words... He was very loyal to Jesus and he's was know love in his face!
I've bigger hill to climb than I thought.
"Christianity without Jesus is just being nice"
I love you Fr. Casey❤️
I am tired of the worst when do I get God’s best
After judgement day.
How to love an enemy fr?
I generally agree with you but vehemently disagree that “good works without Jesus don’t matter.” They might not make you a Christian, but I’m pretty sure (in my reading of Him) He would approve of those who do what he preached regardless of why.
i love this. thank you. Jesus aint done with me yet
I suggest we return to biblical term “disciples” and let Jesus’ own words be a guide to daily turn up the heat rather than be complacent at a comfortable temperature.
A good Catholic can reside in the lukewarm waters of the 5 precepts of the Church. And a Christian nowadays can choose a variety of standards from a multitude of churches or just start one.
No wonder we have confused the world.
Follow Jesus. Pursue Him as Disciple and let His ways become your ways so others may ask, what is “The Way?”
"They'll know we are Christians by our love."
Without Jesus, nothing else matters! Amen.
Difference from being a Christian from being a saint, Christians are imperfect
I don't believe saints are perfect either. Certainly not in this life.
Is a "real" Christian the theoretical ideal of a loving, humble, non-judgmental Christian, that you rarely see in the real world? Or by "real Christian" should we mean Christians as they exist more typically in the real world: smug, opinionated, bitter, bigoted, political, self-righteous, hypocritical, pushy?
Using the word "real" to refer to an elusive, theoretical ideal seems ironically funky, somehow.
I mean in life, being born is not enough. And you can't really live without being born in the first place... so is it in Christianity. I like this
Making a judgement and being judgmental are not the same things.
I believe that purgatory is a process that begins here in this life.
Every day we should become more like Jesus❤
This is Christ's own description of what Salvation and eternal life looks like in any individual: " This is eternal life, that they may know You the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. " John 17:3 A prayer of Christ to His Father in heaven. Notice: The verse says " KNOW " not just know about. The Greek word used there is the word " Ginosko " meaning to gain personal knowledge in an ever deepening relationship with God through Christ coupled with the confirming knowledge of scripture truth producing an emphatic belief. Christ & the Father gifts us faith by His grace so that we can Repent of ourselves and Confess with our mouths that Christ alone is Lord of all and believe in our hearts that Jehovah God alone has raised Christ His Son from the dead. Ephesians 2:8-9 & Romans 10:9-10. Then we can begin the relationship with Them that marks Their living in us! Blessings to all who genuinely seek the Lord and His truth!