The church knows the seasons, it lets us experience joy even when we grieve, suffering with Christ makes sense because we shall celebrate with him, our mourning will be turned to joy.
Happy Birthday Jesus and Merry Christmas Ascension presents and Thank you Fr. Mike for being you. So appreciate you. May the worse days of your new year be likened to the greatest days of all your past years.
The reading in Ecclesiasticus always comforts me during grief. It's usually one of the readings said at funerals but it always brings a sort of hope despite the season of suffering
Thank you Father Mike, and lets all remember the reason of the season, and what mother Teresa said about joy within your heart is the way to fight against evil. Best post ever Father Mike!!!
Thank you Fr. Mike for your enthusiasm and wonderful reflection on Christmas. Have a great One and looking forward for more great reflections next year.
I will choose to rejoice! Thank you Fr. Mike. This is exactly what I needed to watch. Merry Christmas to you and everyone at Ascension Presents.. all the way from India!
Merry Christmas! Christian men take heart today, the devil's rule is done. -- The Huron Carol by Blessed Jean de Brebeuf, S.J. [translated from Wendat]. You know, there's a need for ministry to the Catholic sailors who dock at Duluth and Superior...
I feel like I fail to enter into both joy and grief. I experience suffering and I just wait for it to end. I never have joy nowadays... meaning I haven't in a while at least. I fail to remember to offer my sufferings as a sacrifice and respond with love like saint Therese, and I don't know how to let myself have joy. I feel as though I have wasted Advent so far. Does anyone have thoughts on this... any advice I guess?
Maria Stephens, I totally understand what you are feeling. My advice would be to go to adoration, just sitting quietly with Jesus and pour out what you are feeling, or what you are not feeling, to Him. Give it all to Him because He wants you to come to Him and to have a personal relationship with you; He loves you that much! When you bring this to Jesus, He will help you, possibly in a way you don't expect, but He will always be there for you. Ask Him for the grace of letting yourself have joy, for Jesus says, "ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you". I hope that that helps you, and have a merry and joyful Christmas!
Maria Stephens I had an email discussion with my Priest about Paul's letter to the Collosians, it may apply to you, I'll copy and paste here. God Bless! The bottom line is, yes, Christ has willed that our suffering could be united with His in order to share in the work of His redemption. Just as God endowed humans with the power to share in His Creativity (i.e. procreation) and the Church to share in the work of the Holy Spirit which is sanctification (i.e. the sacraments); the Son has also willed that humans share in what is His principle work- redemption (i.e. the sacrifice of our suffering). For this reason, we call ourselves 'Co-Redeemers' with Christ. Your application as to how this passage could be used in the assistance of others is perfect. The greatest gift we can offer those who suffer is to help them find meaning in it by offering it to the Lord- uniting it to His Cross- rather than merely lamenting it with them. Below I have pasted an excerpt from the Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians (relating to this passage). Merry Christmas! Fr. Cristino 61- And along with the above there is the fruit that in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions. At first glance these words can be misunderstood to mean that the passion of Christ was not sufficient for our redemption, and that the sufferings of the saints were added to complete it. But this is heretical, because the blood of Christ is sufficient to redeem many worlds: “He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 Jn 2:2). Rather, we should understand that Christ and the Church are one mystical person, whose head is Christ, and whose body is all the just, for every just person is a member of this head: “individually members” (1 Cor. 12:27). Now God in his predestination has arranged how much merit will exist throughout the entire Church, both in the head and in the members, just as he has predestined the number of the elect. And among these merits, the sufferings of the holy martyrs occupy a prominent place. For while the merits of Christ, the head, are infinite, each saint displays some merits in a limited degree. This is why he says, I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions, that is, what is lacking in the afflictions of the whole Church, of which Christ is the head. I complete, that is, I add my own amount; and I do this in my flesh, that is, it is I myself who am suffering. Or, we could say that Paul was completing the sufferings that were lacking in his own flesh. for what was lacking was that, just as Christ had suffered in his own body, so he should also suffer in Paul, his member, and in similar ways in others. And Paul does this for the sake of his body, which is the Church that was to be redeemed by Christ: “That he might present the Church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle” (Eph 5:27). In the same way all the saints suffer for the Church, which receives strength from their example. The Gloss says that “afflictions are still lacking, because the treasure house of the Church’s merits is not full, and it will not be full until the end of the world.”
Thank you all for replying. You all helped very much; you're so kind for sharing with me! I am doing better now, though I do want to go to adoration and confession more often :) If it is not too much trouble I hope you can keep me in your prayers.
I will choose to rejoice! Thank you Fr. Mike. This is exactly what I needed to watch. Merry Christmas to you and everyone at Ascension Presents.. all the way from India!
Fr. Mike, thanks for posting videos. I really enjoy them. I hope you have a great "Season". Best wishes.
Merry Christmas Father Mike!!!
The church knows the seasons, it lets us experience joy even when we grieve, suffering with Christ makes sense because we shall celebrate with him, our mourning will be turned to joy.
Happy Birthday Jesus and Merry Christmas Ascension presents and Thank you Fr. Mike for being you. So appreciate you. May the worse days of your new year be likened to the greatest days of all your past years.
The reading in Ecclesiasticus always comforts me during grief. It's usually one of the readings said at funerals but it always brings a sort of hope despite the season of suffering
I choose to rejoice!
Choose Joy! Me gusta!
Thank you Father Mike, and lets all remember the reason of the season, and what mother Teresa said about joy within your heart is the way to fight against evil. Best post ever Father Mike!!!
Thank you Fr. Mike for your enthusiasm and wonderful reflection on Christmas. Have a great One and looking forward for more great reflections next year.
👑 Alleluia. 👑 Happy Birthday, Jesus. 👑
I will choose to rejoice! Thank you Fr. Mike. This is exactly what I needed to watch. Merry Christmas to you and everyone at Ascension Presents.. all the way from India!
I don't go to daily Mass nearly as often as I could I think that should be a goal for a lot of people. Great video, Fr.
this is definatly 1 of the top 5 chanals on youtube
Have a merry Christmas! Recently, I had some struggles with chastity, and your channel helped me a lot! I appreciate the work you put into these! :)
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I will make a choice to rejoice.
Rejoice rejoice emanuel, shall come to thee o Israel
Father, you put the "silly" in reconciliation. :)
Thank you Father! I am trying to work on myself and become closer to God. Do you have any videos about staying in a state of grace?
Don’t hold yourself back from joy.
September 14, 2022
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Merry Christmas! Christian men take heart today, the devil's rule is done. -- The Huron Carol by Blessed Jean de Brebeuf, S.J. [translated from Wendat]. You know, there's a need for ministry to the Catholic sailors who dock at Duluth and Superior...
I feel like I fail to enter into both joy and grief. I experience suffering and I just wait for it to end. I never have joy nowadays... meaning I haven't in a while at least. I fail to remember to offer my sufferings as a sacrifice and respond with love like saint Therese, and I don't know how to let myself have joy. I feel as though I have wasted Advent so far. Does anyone have thoughts on this... any advice I guess?
Maria Stephens, I totally understand what you are feeling. My advice would be to go to adoration, just sitting quietly with Jesus and pour out what you are feeling, or what you are not feeling, to Him. Give it all to Him because He wants you to come to Him and to have a personal relationship with you; He loves you that much! When you bring this to Jesus, He will help you, possibly in a way you don't expect, but He will always be there for you. Ask Him for the grace of letting yourself have joy, for Jesus says, "ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you". I hope that that helps you, and have a merry and joyful Christmas!
Maria Stephens I had an email discussion with my Priest about Paul's letter to the Collosians, it may apply to you, I'll copy and paste here. God Bless!
The bottom line is, yes, Christ has willed that our suffering could be united with His in order to share in the work of His redemption. Just as God endowed humans with the power to share in His Creativity (i.e. procreation) and the Church to share in the work of the Holy Spirit which is sanctification (i.e. the sacraments); the Son has also willed that humans share in what is His principle work- redemption (i.e. the sacrifice of our suffering). For this reason, we call ourselves 'Co-Redeemers' with Christ.
Your application as to how this passage could be used in the assistance of others is perfect. The greatest gift we can offer those who suffer is to help them find meaning in it by offering it to the Lord- uniting it to His Cross- rather than merely lamenting it with them.
Below I have pasted an excerpt from the Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians (relating to this passage).
Merry Christmas!
Fr. Cristino
61- And along with the above there is the fruit that in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions. At first glance these words can be misunderstood to mean that the passion of Christ was not sufficient for our redemption, and that the sufferings of the saints were added to complete it. But this is heretical, because the blood of Christ is sufficient to redeem many worlds: “He is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 Jn 2:2). Rather, we should understand that Christ and the Church are one mystical person, whose head is Christ, and whose body is all the just, for every just person is a member of this head: “individually members” (1 Cor. 12:27). Now God in his predestination has arranged how much merit will exist throughout the entire Church, both in the head and in the members, just as he has predestined the number of the elect. And among these merits, the sufferings of the holy martyrs occupy a prominent place. For while the merits of Christ, the head, are infinite, each saint displays some merits in a limited degree. This is why he says, I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions, that is, what is lacking in the afflictions of the whole Church, of which Christ is the head. I complete, that is, I add my own amount; and I do this in my flesh, that is, it is I myself who am suffering. Or, we could say that Paul was completing the sufferings that were lacking in his own flesh. for what was lacking was that, just as Christ had suffered in his own body, so he should also suffer in Paul, his member, and in similar ways in others. And Paul does this for the sake of his body, which is the Church that was to be redeemed by Christ: “That he might present the Church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle” (Eph 5:27). In the same way all the saints suffer for the Church, which receives strength from their example. The Gloss says that “afflictions are still lacking, because the treasure house of the Church’s merits is not full, and it will not be full until the end of the world.”
Thank you all for replying. You all helped very much; you're so kind for sharing with me! I am doing better now, though I do want to go to adoration and confession more often :) If it is not too much trouble I hope you can keep me in your prayers.
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I will choose to rejoice! Thank you Fr. Mike. This is exactly what I needed to watch. Merry Christmas to you and everyone at Ascension Presents.. all the way from India!