I’ve been a zen Buddhist for decades. In the new year I started praying the rosary every day, first thing in the morning, and Mother Mary brought me to the church through it. I’m now working on praying my rosary more than once a day and including the liturgy of the hours, lectio divina, etc. You and the Hallow app have been such a blessing in my spiritual life Father Shmitz, thank you
ST. TERESA OF AVILA: “Don’t think that if you had a great deal of time you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea! God gives more in a moment than in a long period of time, for His actions are not measured by time at all. Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord is moving among the pots and pans!”
I've had this train of thought for years. When reading a standardized prayer or psalm, it is important to actually intend the words being read or sung. This takes concentration, dedication of attention to God. I like communicating personally with God in personal prayer.
♥️ Psalms 12 KJV 6 The words of the LORD _are_ pure words: _as_ silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 👑 KJV is the 7th bible translated into English. 1 Peter 1 KJV 23-25 1 Corinthians 15 KJV 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
It is called Praying with the Heart. I learned that from a book of that name by a priest of Medjugorje. Took me a bit to transition how I was praying to someone somewhere far off to more talking to a close friend sitting near me. Much different!
Please pray for me. I was so far from God. Please please please pray for my soul, I had a father wound from him passing on my 6th birthday and I led a lost life without him.
I'm so sorry for your loss, and I could not imagine how devastating that was for you. Please remember, God loves you more than you could possibly imagine, and He has a plan for your life. I will pray for you!
Also, if you have never read it, I suggest reading "The Prodigal Son". Luke 15:11-32. I have personally found healing in this and it kind of came to mind when reading your post. God Bless.
Prayers for you and your father’s soul. And you are not far from God , please find a closer Catholic church and sit there (hopefully in the adoration chapel) and talk to Jesus. He is always listening, (even the worst sin can be forgiven) but we need to find a quite time to listen to Him.
Lord Jesus I keep faith even as I struggle as a single mother. Both of my sons have special needs. They require so much from me yet I know I AM BLESSED to be their mother. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle providing the basic necessities like clothing and groceries. Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time help me provide for my children. Amen.💕
Excellent! I started Liturgy of the Hours a few months ago (yup, there’s an app for that!). I’m NOT a morning person. I carved out this time in the morning before breakfast - found my self singing one, then a few, of the psalms each day. It has become the highlight of my day. It is both joyous and calming. I feel “centered”. This is about 15 min of my morning with a shorter duration for the Night Prayers on Breviary. I only do those 2 parts each day. I also “chat” with God to recount the day and follow that with a rosary and some Fr. Mike & ‘Bible in a Year’. I’m not a fan of prepared prayers and I don’t know how all this happened to me, yet PRAYER is now an important part of my day. Prayer, contemplation, scripture reading and a chat - yes, indeed this is my most important relationship. Well done, gentlemen.
@@darrylcooper2587it's LITURGY OF THE HOURS. It's a set of catholic prayers that are meant to be prayed through our certain times during the day. You can Google to learn more
I’m not Catholic, I’m Lutheran, but I love these guys. When I pray, I’ve found my “inner self”, where all my secrets are, my fears, my hopes, my worries, my sins, my joys. St Thomas wrote that God is not a thing, God is not a being, but God is the pure act of to Be itself. Then it seems to me that in your inner being is where you find Him. I find Him there and I listen. There are times, often, when I hear…”come spend some time with Me.” I do and I am always better afterwards.
Take the time. I agree that it's easier to pray now that I am older than when I was younger. I ask the Holy Spirit to help me learn how to pray correctly every day.
Fr. Mike please do a daily podcast of morning and evening prayer of the LOTH. It would be so awesome to pray it with you each day. Please let that be one of your next projects. I really believe so many people will follow along.
The same goes for any relationship. You don't always want to spend time with your kids or your wife. But, even if you are worn out and not feeling any enthusiasm, if you put in the time, they value it and you yourself NEVER regret putting in the time later. At the end of your life, you won't look back and say, "I wish that I had spent LESS time with my loved ones." Even if the time spent with them was difficult, even if it felt fruitless while you were spending time with them, you NEVER regret it later. You might wish you had been more in the moment, but you won't wish that you hadn't even tried. The same should hold true with prayer. If you value God in your life, spend time with Him.
Fitting your life around prayer is absolutely wonderful and important, but I think there's also value in finding whatever small pockets of quiet you can use. My vocation is marriage and motherhood. We're about to have a 3rd baby and I have no idea when the last time was that I had an whole uninterrupted hour to myself!
Matthew 6:5 'And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.'
Fantastic message fellas. I appreciate the time taken to guide us. Design our life around our worship vs scheduling time for worship within our day "after" our own endeavors. God bless y'all, Happy Thanksgiving and I am praying for y'all pretty often, especially these days.
One of the older monks at Gethsemani, Br Christian if memory serves, once said that of the things that make up the monastic life-- work, reading, and prayer-- that the most important is the reading. What he meant by that, I think, is that communal prayer is absolutely essential, but it is a corporate complement to the relationship the monk builds in the individual setting while reading. Of course, the reading is another form of prayer, and I'm certain he did not intend to denigrate the solemn duty of praying the hours in community, but it's something I've been thinking about for more than ten years.
On Sunday, our parish made Bishop Barron's book, "An Introduction to Prayer" available for free. I picked up a copy and just started reading it and then this video popped up in my TH-cam feed! Definitely need this information in my life.
I always pray that I become a successful Catholic Social Media Influencer to spread the teachings and Revelations of the Catholic Church and the entire Christendom. I hope and pray the Devotion to the Eucharist and the Holy Souls in Purgatory helps me. Please pray 7 Hail Mary in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows and Tears
What is success to you? What if you spread the teachings of the church only to your family and friends and your Parrish? Will that mean you’re unsuccessful?
I don’t often sit still or apart while praying. My conversations are while I’m working (I farm and build and am an artist) asking God to guide my hands, keep my mind on task, my guardian angel to guard me from self-recriminations and second guessing, and I say the rosary while doing tedious repetitive tasks like weeding (one Hail Mary for 10 weeds; an Our Father for each new row) or digging. But I have been told this doesn’t count and sometimes I feel like it is sort of cheating. But when you work in isolation, I keep hoping for a conversation with this important person, but I’m not sure if this counts.
One of my acquaintances argues that you can’t do the dishes and pray at the same time, that it’s cheating God. A friend of mine argued that it’s perfectly acceptable, that it’s better to pray ‘poorly’ than not at all… this rings true to me. Surely, we turn our mundane work into prayer and sanctify it when we do both at the same time? Also, I just can’t think of a benevolent God saying, ‘nope, sorry: that’s not good enough because you were folding laundry or cutting down a tree while we had a conversation. You have to give me every iota of physical attention while you pray.’ That sounds like human piety gone awry.
Brother Lawrence wrote Practicing the Presence of God. He prayed while working in the kitchen finding God amidst all of the pots and pans in the Monastery. You are always praying. God bless you✝️
1Thessalonians 5;16 - 17 . “ Rejoice always, pray continually “ Brother Lawrence said ‘ I carry on an habitual and silent conversation with God , that fills me with overwhelming joy. I live as if there were no one save God and me in the world .’ ‘ One act of inward worship, is prayer - which however short , is never the less , acceptable to God .” Indeed the best life is ‘ friendship with the Lord .’ Thanks .
yeah I had the thought that I needed to talk to God and it had to be like a conversation like He is a human being sitting across the table, and I tried really hard to force it, and it made me realize that I'm not healthy enough. Like how some people are not ready for marriage because they aren't mature enough, they can't support a family, they don't know how to connect to people. In order for God to be present to me like a human sitting across the table, I need to be able to handle Him choosing not to be there, choosing to be somewhere else, choosing to not say what I want to hear, and being a person who I can't always understand. I'm too hungry for that deep down. I'm too scared and frayed and blinded. I do want to know God, and if I knew I would die tomorrow I think it would be a huge relief because that would mean tomorrow everything that is keeping me from being able to have that relationship with God will be burned away. So I have this abstract relationship with God right now, and I'm hoping that God wants to change things and be there for me in the way I feel like I need, and I'm just hoping that this is necessary distance right now that will make God's will happen in the world, and it will all be for the best
Hmm. I am troubled with a statement of “I’m not healthy enough”. As Father Mike says, we are ALL broken. Start right where you are. Allow yourself to fall - like learning to walk, or ride a bike! There’s NO “right way” to talk to God. If not a conversation across the table, how about a light talk with someone walking next to you? Can you imagine walking next to God? Having Him stand near you while you’re washing the dishes and maybe you are questioning things/events that happened during the day? I assure you that He will listen to all you have to say. Tell Him you’re uncomfortable❤. It’s just fine to be awkward 👍🏻. Hey, I’m just a person and I responded to you - just IMAGINE what God can do for you! May God bless you and comfort you. Now…..go have a chit chat with Him!
@@joannc147 haha yes, I talk but He doesn't respond. Things are a little abstract. I'm working on trusting. That's where we are starting. One thing I didn't mention is that a big part of the reason I'm not healthy enough is because I'm schizophrenic and it's easy for me to get confused that my hallucinations are Jesus' voice. But I don't think it's bad for things to be abstract while I'm getting better, I think it is pleasing to God that I just trust Him and wait for Him to reveal Himself while I get better. The exact same things happened with my mom and dad, they had to stay away from me a bit while I sorted out what I hallucinated them saying to me vs what they actually said to me, and it was all a work of love, so I'm sure it was pleasing to God.
@@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa I hope you'll be glad to read that we all go through times like that in prayer, it's not unique to you because of your illness. And all mental illnesses definitely make prayer harder. But you're absolutely doing the right thing by staying constant in your prayer, that's the MAIN thing! The rest will develop by itself while you keep constant, as it happens with any relationship. Well done to you for your constancy while carrying such a heavy cross; so many people have it easier, yet have no constancy.
***A great line from the script of the "Chosen", when someone says "I am not worthy"...Mary of Magdala says, "He makes us worthy"‼️ A beautiful truth...None of us are worthy, but we come to our Lord because we need Him & He loves us no matter what. Just keep trying...God will "teach you & give you what you need. Sending a hug & prayers, Alyssa. ✝️❤✝️
@@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa Dear One - THAT is a very “healthy” reply from you! May God continue to bless you on this journey.🙏🏻 I cannot even fathom a life with confusing voices….that is terrifying to me. May your trust and surrender continue.❤ You got this! There is no fear or confusion in your comment. I admire you!
completely understand Fr Mike. once the "rote" prayers are internalized, they become the vehicle for that which has no words. you feel inspired and they rise up on their own to express the spirit. like any language, you learn by imitating and eventually you're making sentences on your own.
I find myself internally speaking to God all throughout the day. Its the specific morning and nightly prayers that I'm not sure if I am doing it correctly.
This was so wonderful. Having watched you both for so many years as well as using videos from the both of you in teaching classes, it is refreshing to hear that the both of you also have the same problems that so many of us have in setting aside the time. Bishop Barron, like you ( at an older age than you ) I find than starting the day, with some kind of prayer and faith reading can set the tone for the day. Thank you both.
Jesus said: When you pray, there is no need to use many words. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: “The Lord’s Prayer is the best of all prayers: confident, ordered, suitable, devout and humble.”
***Remember, prayer is talking to the one who created us, who loves us most, who will meet us where we are & lift us up higher...DV (Deo Volente)❤✝️...How I wish I could see that valediction again. Ahhhh, the poetic art of letter writing. 'Tis like a prayer. Be like David, make everything a prayer. ❤✝️ DV
When I am « saying prayers », I feel more like I am « talking about » God. The indicator: following up with a checkmark on a to-do list. When I am praying, strangely, praying seems more like listening. The indicator: an unsatisfied hunger for more of God whether He feels absent or present from what I am going through. Levy Shalom
ST. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: “We create all kinds of difficulties in our prayer. Let us go back to what Jesus has taught - the intimate and simple prayer: ‘Our Father...’ Even little children can pray this.”
Sadly Msgr. Sokolowski passed away just last year. His memory still towers at Catholic U and lives on through the mighty metaphysician Dr. Gregory Doolan!
Different kinds of prayer for different times and purposes. Sometimes just saying prayers at the time you're supposed to say them is doing the work of putting your mind on God and Godly things on a regular basis.
I was hoping to hear what you two had to say specifically regarding the thumbnail text; "Saying prayers verses actually praying" but there are plenty of other videos on that. For me the difference is where my heart, mind, focus and attention is aimed...talking to the air or talking to Our Lord.
A Christian should so hunger for God that time not spent with Him is considered wasted. ❤🔥 Yes, He is always with us anyway, but to carve out significant time with Him is critical. An hour is not a long time to be alone with the Beloved! It's not nearly enough.
Has anyone else read “Jesus’ Biological Father was Joseph: According to the New Testament” (DS WAGGONER)? This cites the birth narratives from the King James Version, then points out how Rome added words and even events, and in some cases, superimposed over certain words, to arrive at a Virgin Birth story. If you haven’t read it, it’s mind-bending!
Am I able to have a holy hour as a lay person? I was of the understanding that holy hours were meant to be done in the presence of the Eucharist, of course it is still good to improve my prayer life, but will it have the same impact without the presence of Christ?
Please I hope this gets to Bishop Barron. Greetings in the love of Christ. I watched a video of him and some other men of God discussing Christianity and a Jew asked a question about the LOGOS of Genesis description if it's the same as the LOGOS of John 1:1. I think it's the same LOGOS. In Genesis it says...the earth was without form and void and THE SPIRIT ( HOLY SPIRIT) of THE LORD hovered over the waters. And GOD(THE WORD)said ' LET THERE BE'(THE WORD). Because as the creed says ' through HIM all things were made. The TRINITY IS present at creation. Greetings in the love of Christ.
The last month of the current civilization has already begun, everything is ready to fulfill the Word of God with Israel, his Lawgiver, Remnant and Angelic Souls are just waiting while the pre-rapture continues its course in the spiritual world, day after day, without interrupting for a single second, blessed are those who were sealed by God on their foreheads because they are the protagonists and witnesses of how the Word of the God of Israel will finally become true with his joyful people. 😊Those who have not been sealed on the forehead are not aware and can not be aware by any means of what is going on in the spiritual world.😄
Lay people do not have to pray all the hours. I pray Morning Prayer and Night Prayer. If the Apple App is still available I recommend Divine Office because it has Audio. There are other good Liturgy of the Hour Apps
Yo get the word on fire liturgy of the hours its really simple and comes with a monthly book only 8$ a month and its morning evening and night prayer super simple really good highly recommend
What about when one says the Divine Mercy prayers, they are repetitive, as are the prayers in the Rosary. I find myself saying the words but not thinking about them. Should I not say these if that's the case?
❤I believe it to be both. It's the point of view from which you are praying...Sometimes, it's obligation ( which it is) & sometimes it feels overwhelmingly like a privilege. At those privileged times, I feel like I'm having a love-in with the Lord❤✝️
Question: How does Trinity talk with each other 😂 if They are too busy all the time, because They are taking care of Their Creation? They’re interacting with each other inside of them! So, if we’re too busy human, do we eliminate praying to God too? Nope, because don’t you know your body is a temple of God? And if we love to pray all the time, even though busy schedules, we will go back to God, go back to the Church and meet Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle that is waiting for each one of us on earth, in this human earthly life. God gives the gift of time on earth the same to each of us, 24 hrs a day, the time on earth belongs to each human is the same. But time also belongs to God, and He is the Master of time and space 💪🏽
Join Fr. Mike Schmitz this Advent in his new program FACE TO FACE, only available in the Ascension App: link.ascension-app.com/FY7OH8QkSOb
I’ve been a zen Buddhist for decades. In the new year I started praying the rosary every day, first thing in the morning, and Mother Mary brought me to the church through it. I’m now working on praying my rosary more than once a day and including the liturgy of the hours, lectio divina, etc. You and the Hallow app have been such a blessing in my spiritual life Father Shmitz, thank you
ST. TERESA OF AVILA: “Don’t think that if you had a great deal of time you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea! God gives more in a moment than in a long period of time, for His actions are not measured by time at all. Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord is moving among the pots and pans!”
I've had this train of thought for years. When reading a standardized prayer or psalm, it is important to actually intend the words being read or sung. This takes concentration, dedication of attention to God. I like communicating personally with God in personal prayer.
♥️ Psalms 12 KJV 6 The words of the LORD _are_ pure words: _as_ silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
👑 KJV is the 7th bible translated into English.
1 Peter 1 KJV
23-25
1 Corinthians 15 KJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
It is called Praying with the Heart. I learned that from a book of that name by a priest of Medjugorje. Took me a bit to transition how I was praying to someone somewhere far off to more talking to a close friend sitting near me. Much different!
Please pray for me. I was so far from God. Please please please pray for my soul, I had a father wound from him passing on my 6th birthday and I led a lost life without him.
I'm so sorry for your loss, and I could not imagine how devastating that was for you. Please remember, God loves you more than you could possibly imagine, and He has a plan for your life. I will pray for you!
Also, if you have never read it, I suggest reading "The Prodigal Son". Luke 15:11-32. I have personally found healing in this and it kind of came to mind when reading your post. God Bless.
Prayers that our Heavenly Father heals your heart and mind. God Bless!
May the Divine Grace of the Living Father Be with You in the name of the king of kings our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Prayers for you and your father’s soul. And you are not far from God , please find a closer Catholic church and sit there (hopefully in the adoration chapel) and talk to Jesus. He is always listening, (even the worst sin can be forgiven) but we need to find a quite time to listen to Him.
Lord Jesus I keep faith even as I struggle as a single mother. Both of my sons have special needs. They require so much from me yet I know I AM BLESSED to be their mother. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle providing the basic necessities like clothing and groceries. Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time help me provide for my children. Amen.💕
Amen.❤
Amen. Stay strong momma❤❤❤
Amem.
🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️
Praying for you 🙏
“Beware lest your religion be one of sentiment merely, not of practice.”
-St. John Henry Newman
So that means we pray, right?
Excellent! I started Liturgy of the Hours a few months ago (yup, there’s an app for that!). I’m NOT a morning person. I carved out this time in the morning before breakfast - found my self singing one, then a few, of the psalms each day. It has become the highlight of my day. It is both joyous and calming. I feel “centered”. This is about 15 min of my morning with a shorter duration for the Night Prayers on Breviary. I only do those 2 parts each day. I also “chat” with God to recount the day and follow that with a rosary and some Fr. Mike & ‘Bible in a Year’. I’m not a fan of prepared prayers and I don’t know how all this happened to me, yet PRAYER is now an important part of my day. Prayer, contemplation, scripture reading and a chat - yes, indeed this is my most important relationship. Well done, gentlemen.
I’ve never understood the liturgy. It seems designed for mass, how do you read it at home?
I envy you... 😞
@@darrylcooper2587it's LITURGY OF THE HOURS. It's a set of catholic prayers that are meant to be prayed through our certain times during the day. You can Google to learn more
"My life is friendship with the Lord. Everything else follows...." Amen.🙏🏻
I did this Advent prep with Fr Mike . It was one of the best preps I have ever done, and I have been practicing my Catholic faith for 50 years.
Brilliant. If God is most important in your life, spend time with Him.
Amen
My life is friendship with the Lord. Truth in these words
I was taught to give God the first hour of my day. I get so blessed.
I wasn’t taught this but I’m doing it now. God will always be the center of my day. I’m not letting the Devil start my day.
The Surrender Novena helps me deepen my prayers. I pray it daily.
I’m not Catholic, I’m Lutheran, but I love these guys. When I pray, I’ve found my “inner self”, where all my secrets are, my fears, my hopes, my worries, my sins, my joys. St Thomas wrote that God is not a thing, God is not a being, but God is the pure act of to Be itself. Then it seems to me that in your inner being is where you find Him. I find Him there and I listen. There are times, often, when I hear…”come spend some time with Me.” I do and I am always better afterwards.
Praise glory and giving thanks to God.
God bless you both, and thank you for your teachings, it helps alot! Prayer is always on attack, and i needed to hear this. Thanks!
Take the time. I agree that it's easier to pray now that I am older than when I was younger. I ask the Holy Spirit to help me learn how to pray correctly every day.
I'll join my hands whilst sitting on the bus, in my lap, prayer is really all you seem to have sometimes.
Amen
Yup.
Fr. Mike please do a daily podcast of morning and evening prayer of the LOTH. It would be so awesome to pray it with you each day. Please let that be one of your next projects. I really believe so many people will follow along.
I bought the new book by Bishop Barron and it's so good. It really teaches how to effectively Pray.
What's the name of the book?
@@diamondlou1 An introduction to Prayer; it's at Amazon but I couldn't paste the link.
pray without ceasing!!!!
God bless you both-really helpful and practical insights! Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on us!
The same goes for any relationship. You don't always want to spend time with your kids or your wife. But, even if you are worn out and not feeling any enthusiasm, if you put in the time, they value it and you yourself NEVER regret putting in the time later. At the end of your life, you won't look back and say, "I wish that I had spent LESS time with my loved ones." Even if the time spent with them was difficult, even if it felt fruitless while you were spending time with them, you NEVER regret it later. You might wish you had been more in the moment, but you won't wish that you hadn't even tried. The same should hold true with prayer. If you value God in your life, spend time with Him.
God Bless them both
+LONG LIVE OUR HOLY CHURCH.+
Oh, you two are such blessing!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Inspiring story, wishing everyone peace and love in God!
Minute 6:00 "God you gave us these words, and we give them back to you" noted! . Thanks Bishop Barron and Fr. Mike. God bless you 🙏
One doesn't t have to say anything ,father mike s expression ,face says it all !🤗 go father mike , go bishop baron !🤔
This is beautiful.
Thank you for this discussion. It helps to know my struggles are not unique and neither are the solutions.
God bless you.
Adoration is a life changer.
“ Oh God, you gave us these words”. That rang a bell. Thank you.
Fitting your life around prayer is absolutely wonderful and important, but I think there's also value in finding whatever small pockets of quiet you can use. My vocation is marriage and motherhood. We're about to have a 3rd baby and I have no idea when the last time was that I had an whole uninterrupted hour to myself!
Note its two unmarried men talking :) (I'm kidding, I'm kidding!)
Thank you both... excellent, helpful, and truly sincere discussion!!
Prayer now is like the air I breathe: I cannot live without it!
Love seeing these two in a video❤❤
Matthew 6:5 'And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.'
I listen to Fr Mike daily!! Love him! And I like Bishop Baron as well. Two great men!!
A beautiful and powerful conversation shared with the world ❤ thank you
Fantastic message fellas. I appreciate the time taken to guide us. Design our life around our worship vs scheduling time for worship within our day "after" our own endeavors. God bless y'all, Happy Thanksgiving and I am praying for y'all pretty often, especially these days.
God knows all of our fears, worries, wants and needs, when I pray it's to have a relationship with the Lord..❤
I agree with thee Bishop about praying first thing in the morning, "Give the Lord your First Fruits".
One of the older monks at Gethsemani, Br Christian if memory serves, once said that of the things that make up the monastic life-- work, reading, and prayer-- that the most important is the reading.
What he meant by that, I think, is that communal prayer is absolutely essential, but it is a corporate complement to the relationship the monk builds in the individual setting while reading. Of course, the reading is another form of prayer, and I'm certain he did not intend to denigrate the solemn duty of praying the hours in community, but it's something I've been thinking about for more than ten years.
On Sunday, our parish made Bishop Barron's book, "An Introduction to Prayer" available for free. I picked up a copy and just started reading it and then this video popped up in my TH-cam feed!
Definitely need this information in my life.
I always pray that I become a successful Catholic Social Media Influencer to spread the teachings and Revelations of the Catholic Church and the entire Christendom. I hope and pray the Devotion to the Eucharist and the Holy Souls in Purgatory helps me.
Please pray 7 Hail Mary in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows and Tears
What is success to you?
What if you spread the teachings of the church only to your family and friends and your Parrish? Will that mean you’re unsuccessful?
Very interesting 👌 thanks 🙏
I don’t often sit still or apart while praying. My conversations are while I’m working (I farm and build and am an artist) asking God to guide my hands, keep my mind on task, my guardian angel to guard me from self-recriminations and second guessing, and I say the rosary while doing tedious repetitive tasks like weeding (one Hail Mary for 10 weeds; an Our Father for each new row) or digging. But I have been told this doesn’t count and sometimes I feel like it is sort of cheating. But when you work in isolation, I keep hoping for a conversation with this important person, but I’m not sure if this counts.
❤ It counts, it all counts and you have no idea how much. 🙏
One of my acquaintances argues that you can’t do the dishes and pray at the same time, that it’s cheating God. A friend of mine argued that it’s perfectly acceptable, that it’s better to pray ‘poorly’ than not at all… this rings true to me. Surely, we turn our mundane work into prayer and sanctify it when we do both at the same time? Also, I just can’t think of a benevolent God saying, ‘nope, sorry: that’s not good enough because you were folding laundry or cutting down a tree while we had a conversation. You have to give me every iota of physical attention while you pray.’ That sounds like human piety gone awry.
@ totally agree with you 🙏❤️
Brother Lawrence wrote Practicing the Presence of God. He prayed while working in the kitchen finding God amidst all of the pots and pans in the Monastery.
You are always praying. God bless you✝️
Can’t wait to see you Jan 19th!
Thank you for this! 💗🌟🕊️
1Thessalonians 5;16 - 17 . “ Rejoice always, pray continually “ Brother Lawrence said ‘ I carry on an habitual and silent conversation with God , that fills me with overwhelming joy. I live as if there were no one save God and me in the world .’ ‘ One act of inward worship, is prayer - which however short , is never the less , acceptable to God .” Indeed the best life is ‘ friendship with the Lord .’
Thanks .
yeah I had the thought that I needed to talk to God and it had to be like a conversation like He is a human being sitting across the table, and I tried really hard to force it, and it made me realize that I'm not healthy enough. Like how some people are not ready for marriage because they aren't mature enough, they can't support a family, they don't know how to connect to people. In order for God to be present to me like a human sitting across the table, I need to be able to handle Him choosing not to be there, choosing to be somewhere else, choosing to not say what I want to hear, and being a person who I can't always understand. I'm too hungry for that deep down. I'm too scared and frayed and blinded. I do want to know God, and if I knew I would die tomorrow I think it would be a huge relief because that would mean tomorrow everything that is keeping me from being able to have that relationship with God will be burned away. So I have this abstract relationship with God right now, and I'm hoping that God wants to change things and be there for me in the way I feel like I need, and I'm just hoping that this is necessary distance right now that will make God's will happen in the world, and it will all be for the best
Hmm. I am troubled with a statement of “I’m not healthy enough”. As Father Mike says, we are ALL broken. Start right where you are. Allow yourself to fall - like learning to walk, or ride a bike! There’s NO “right way” to talk to God. If not a conversation across the table, how about a light talk with someone walking next to you? Can you imagine walking next to God? Having Him stand near you while you’re washing the dishes and maybe you are questioning things/events that happened during the day? I assure you that He will listen to all you have to say. Tell Him you’re uncomfortable❤. It’s just fine to be awkward 👍🏻. Hey, I’m just a person and I responded to you - just IMAGINE what God can do for you! May God bless you and comfort you. Now…..go have a chit chat with Him!
@@joannc147 haha yes, I talk but He doesn't respond. Things are a little abstract. I'm working on trusting. That's where we are starting. One thing I didn't mention is that a big part of the reason I'm not healthy enough is because I'm schizophrenic and it's easy for me to get confused that my hallucinations are Jesus' voice. But I don't think it's bad for things to be abstract while I'm getting better, I think it is pleasing to God that I just trust Him and wait for Him to reveal Himself while I get better. The exact same things happened with my mom and dad, they had to stay away from me a bit while I sorted out what I hallucinated them saying to me vs what they actually said to me, and it was all a work of love, so I'm sure it was pleasing to God.
@@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa I hope you'll be glad to read that we all go through times like that in prayer, it's not unique to you because of your illness. And all mental illnesses definitely make prayer harder. But you're absolutely doing the right thing by staying constant in your prayer, that's the MAIN thing! The rest will develop by itself while you keep constant, as it happens with any relationship.
Well done to you for your constancy while carrying such a heavy cross; so many people have it easier, yet have no constancy.
***A great line from the script of the "Chosen", when someone says "I am not worthy"...Mary of Magdala says, "He makes us worthy"‼️ A beautiful truth...None of us are worthy, but we come to our Lord because we need Him & He loves us no matter what. Just keep trying...God will "teach you & give you what you need. Sending a hug & prayers, Alyssa. ✝️❤✝️
@@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa Dear One - THAT is a very “healthy” reply from you! May God continue to bless you on this journey.🙏🏻 I cannot even fathom a life with confusing voices….that is terrifying to me. May your trust and surrender continue.❤ You got this! There is no fear or confusion in your comment. I admire you!
BL. SOLANUS CASEY: Thank God ahead of time.
Thank you brothers
completely understand Fr Mike. once the "rote" prayers are internalized, they become the vehicle for that which has no words. you feel inspired and they rise up on their own to express the spirit.
like any language, you learn by imitating and eventually you're making sentences on your own.
I love this!! Thank you!!
Much Appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
Tu I'm trying to learn my way❤
What a wonderful meeting of two great hearts & minds.
I find myself internally speaking to God all throughout the day. Its the specific morning and nightly prayers that I'm not sure if I am doing it correctly.
God is guiding me. Thank YOU.
Wonderful advice Bishop.
Thank you for sharing these wise words ❤
Deo Gratias
Thanks!
This was so wonderful. Having watched you both for so many years as well as using videos from the both of you in teaching classes, it is refreshing to hear that the both of you also have the same problems that so many of us have in setting aside the time. Bishop Barron, like you ( at an older age than you ) I find than starting the day, with some kind of prayer and faith reading can set the tone for the day. Thank you both.
🙏🏼Liturgy of the Hours
Praying for both Fr Mike and Bishop Barron, I pray Bishop Barron turn away from modernism and the new church and return to the Catholic faith.
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Jesus said:
When you pray, there is no need to use many words. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray like this:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: “The Lord’s Prayer is the best of all prayers: confident, ordered, suitable, devout and humble.”
Amen
Very Good! ❤❤❤
***Remember, prayer is talking to the one who created us, who loves us most, who will meet us where we are & lift us up higher...DV (Deo Volente)❤✝️...How I wish I could see that valediction again. Ahhhh, the poetic art of letter writing. 'Tis like a prayer. Be like David, make everything a prayer. ❤✝️ DV
When I am « saying prayers », I feel more like I am « talking about » God. The indicator: following up with a checkmark on a to-do list. When I am praying, strangely, praying seems more like listening. The indicator: an unsatisfied hunger for more of God whether He feels absent or present from what I am going through.
Levy Shalom
ST. MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: “We create all kinds of difficulties in our prayer. Let us go back to what Jesus has taught - the intimate and simple prayer: ‘Our Father...’ Even little children can pray this.”
Sadly Msgr. Sokolowski passed away just last year. His memory still towers at Catholic U and lives on through the mighty metaphysician Dr. Gregory Doolan!
Amen😇🙏❤
Different kinds of prayer for different times and purposes. Sometimes just saying prayers at the time you're supposed to say them is doing the work of putting your mind on God and Godly things on a regular basis.
The key is confession. That's all. Very easy thing.
I was hoping to hear what you two had to say specifically regarding the thumbnail text; "Saying prayers verses actually praying" but there are plenty of other videos on that. For me the difference is where my heart, mind, focus and attention is aimed...talking to the air or talking to Our Lord.
There’s the full version of this discussion on this channel 🙂
A Christian should so hunger for God that time not spent with Him is considered wasted. ❤🔥 Yes, He is always with us anyway, but to carve out significant time with Him is critical. An hour is not a long time to be alone with the Beloved! It's not nearly enough.
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thankful for you mah homies
Has anyone else read “Jesus’ Biological Father was Joseph: According to the New Testament” (DS WAGGONER)? This cites the birth narratives from the King James Version, then points out how Rome added words and even events, and in some cases, superimposed over certain words, to arrive at a Virgin Birth story. If you haven’t read it, it’s mind-bending!
Just speak with God... Heavenly Father...then tell him what's on your heart and mind.
Amen, I almost died 3x.
Am I able to have a holy hour as a lay person? I was of the understanding that holy hours were meant to be done in the presence of the Eucharist, of course it is still good to improve my prayer life, but will it have the same impact without the presence of Christ?
You can do it at home
HE WAS SO CLOSE TO QUOTING ME AGAIN!!!! Missed opportunity
Please I hope this gets to Bishop Barron.
Greetings in the love of Christ.
I watched a video of him and some other men of God discussing Christianity and a Jew asked a question about the LOGOS of Genesis description if it's the same as the LOGOS of John 1:1.
I think it's the same LOGOS.
In Genesis it says...the earth was without form and void and THE SPIRIT ( HOLY SPIRIT) of THE LORD hovered over the waters.
And GOD(THE WORD)said ' LET THERE BE'(THE WORD).
Because as the creed says ' through HIM all things were made.
The TRINITY IS present at creation.
Greetings in the love of Christ.
Does holy hour always have to be with adoration? That’s not available all the time where I am.
You can do it at home
The last month of the current civilization has already begun, everything is ready to fulfill the Word of God with Israel, his Lawgiver, Remnant and Angelic Souls are just waiting while the pre-rapture continues its course in the spiritual world, day after day, without interrupting for a single second, blessed are those who were sealed by God on their foreheads because they are the protagonists and witnesses of how the Word of the God of Israel will finally become true with his joyful people. 😊Those who have not been sealed on the forehead are not aware and can not be aware by any means of what is going on in the spiritual world.😄
How do you pray the psalms? Do you memorize them or read them daily?
Can you guys pray for me my name is Hector
Praying for you here 🩵
@ thank you may God bless you
Right now Hector I will pray for you.
Lord have mercy on Hector. Christ have mercy on Hector. Lord have mercy on Hector.
Praying shouldn't be a difficult chore!
How do I begin the Liturgy of the Hour? I looked up online, there seems to be 8 times a day, not 5.
Lay people do not have to pray all the hours. I pray Morning Prayer and Night Prayer. If the Apple App is still available I recommend
Divine Office because it has Audio.
There are other good Liturgy of the Hour Apps
@bicecomichista2124 thank you so much
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@petr4138 Thank you so much. I am glad I asked here.
What about when one says the Divine Mercy prayers, they are repetitive, as are the prayers in the Rosary. I find myself saying the words but not thinking about them. Should I not say these if that's the case?
The difference for me is the question, is it an obligation or a privilege?
❤I believe it to be both. It's the point of view from which you are praying...Sometimes, it's obligation ( which it is) & sometimes it feels overwhelmingly like a privilege. At those privileged times, I feel like I'm having a love-in with the Lord❤✝️
@@babecarla Good points. I find a marriage is long enough to be both.
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What if you ask best for yourself once per pigg
Bishops are priests and administrators. Be thankful to be a priest. Administration never lets up and would drive me nuts.
Question: How does Trinity talk with each other 😂 if They are too busy all the time, because They are taking care of Their Creation?
They’re interacting with each other inside of them!
So, if we’re too busy human, do we eliminate praying to God too?
Nope, because don’t you know your body is a temple of God?
And if we love to pray all the time, even though busy schedules, we will go back to God, go back to the Church and meet Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle that is waiting for each one of us on earth, in this human earthly life.
God gives the gift of time on earth the same to each of us, 24 hrs a day, the time on earth belongs to each human is the same. But time also belongs to God, and He is the Master of time and space 💪🏽