I was born on the feast day of St. Therese ( October 01) and she's been instrumental in my calling to the priesthood. Currently in my pastoral year serving as a missionary in Thailand and by God's grace assigned in St. Therese of Lisieux Parish. Please pray for me Brothers and Sisters. St. Therese teach us always your little way each day. Pray for us 🙏
This is so timely. I am going through an awful lot at work, which makes me feel so insecure, inferior and unwanted. I have many limitations especially when l need to speak in public l just freeze stutter and can’t get the message across. I am constantly accused of not communicating promptly but in my mind l need to gather facts, process and give out accurate information. I do forget to do things and sometimes l can’t do things as well as l should. I am trying to change my job, look for something else to do but the feeling of brokenness cripples me. I walk with God pray my rosary daily and read the Word. This reminder that God is close to us in our brokenness is so Powerful. Please Jesus let me experience your love for me. I can’t change myself. I need you and need to experience your Love and walk in confidence in spite of my many shortcomings and failures. Jesus l trust in you. Amen
This was amazing! I struggle with the feeling that God does not love me so much bc of my brokenness or bc of my weaknesses. This line was interesting: “God doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved; that’s unreal.” Yes, sometimes God uses tough love. It reminded me of St. Teresa of Avila saying to God, no wonder you have so few friends. Thank you so much Bishop Greg. After I finished watching the video I thought about what you said and I felt God looking at me with so much love. It warmed my heart… 🌹❤️
Thankyou Bishop Greg. So many memories of when I could attend carmel myself and had become a Secular member. God called me into Carmel.. yes through much pain and inability and suffering in my life. His Love caused me to fall in love with Jesus and this turned my life upside down because my husband "didn't know me any more " he said. Our PP. gave me a book called "Story of a Soul" (later also St. Teresa and St. John). He kept saying to me: "You need to speak to the carmelites." Finally I said: "alright where are these carmelites?"and took me to speak to the Carmelites, then at Box Hill in Victoria. What a Blessing to know I wasn't going completely mad. The LOVE I had experienced and the suffering were all part of of the "journey".. as God calls the soul back to Himself. May He be blessed and praised for ever.
Beautiful talk. It's good to change our mindset like Therese did. Come to me, Lord, in my brokenness and weaknesses, do not it away. Come to me in my real nature lord. Thank you Bishop. Honor and glory to you father God. Please pray for us mama mary for those of us struggling with perfection and change our mindset like therese did!
Great talk. I am in love with St. Therese that I too seek her guidance and intercessions. Though about the topic of theology vs spirituality, I believe that we cannot simply dismiss theology because it is also the knowledge of knowing God thus making us love Him more. Some people might have achieved spirituality because they have learned through Theology, God. And those who already have the spirituality, thus being able to experience God, are wanting to know about Him more. In this regard I believe the spiritual person then goes on the journey of expanding his/her knowledge of God (the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, the Blessed Mother, the prayers, etc…) they are able to obtain a deeper understanding then are able to love God more.
❤ I have experienced the love of the Holy Spirit. Tremendous Pure Love going through all my body cells. I was no longer attached to a medical physician I was free from that attachment . I was myself again with The Holy Spirit as my attachment. I was also freed from a bad relationship. And a sin was wiped away in a flash. In Peace. Etc etc I'm writing about it all. I love God very much . He is my life.❤❤❤
Thank Bishop Graig for this wonderful talk! I truly experienced a rose’s miracle in 2009, until 2 years later (2011 ) before my baptism it was time for me to choose my baptism name, I just dared to share the miracle at RCIA group meeting…then, my sponsor told me that the rose miracle I experienced 2 years ago was from St Therese…. It makes me tearing every time I tell this true experience 😢😢
My second name is Therese. When I was born on 8 December 1947 I had a health problem. I could not eat and was expected to die. The hospital in Baden (Switzerland) where I was born was run by nuns at that time. The nuns felt I needed a second name after Marie and I was named after Therese of Lisieux. Now I understand why the nuns insisted that my mother gives me a second name when I was baptised after 5 days. Three years later my mother had my sister. She has only one name called Ursula. Thank you Bishop Greg.
God has been so very generous to me througout my life, I know he hears me but for some reason I have not experience God's love for me. Please pray that I may come to experience God's love so that I can love others as He loves.
Indeed, spirituality is the experience of God in our life. I agree that we can most feel God's presence in times of uncertainties and sufferings. That I personally experienced. His presence is so much felt and comforting.
Thank you for this talk, which has given me so much to dwell on and pray through. I have been blessed by your explanations and by your Sunday homilies in the online masses, to which I listen.
Thank you Bishop fiat praying for all our needs. Amen 🙏 graces indulgences con versions for all humble holy beings obedience is patient persevere and grace and mercy and 😊❤
⛪My Lord, thank you. You spoke profoundly on the brokenness of St. Therese. One of her siblings now Ven. Leonie Martin was also a very suffering and broken soul. Not charming in any way, not mentally gifted like Therese and her other siblings and with a nasty skin condition from infancy to her death also in suffering found God. The Little Way was her bedside book. That wonderful family DID suffer and won Heaven "by violence. " Looking forward to Pt. II. God bless.
I would disagree with Teresa of Avila on that point as the things I do not like are injustice, racial hatred, genocide, cruelty to animals and environmental destruction and I think God hates those things also.
Hope I help. Theresa looked at her own brokenness. We each feels like we are weak in evil. God uses our one spirit to do much if we ask God to take us in small way to help us makes a difference. Parts of God's plan may be small but like a pebble in a pond. Ripples occur. God does hate what you hate. He wants us to trust him and allow us to be a holy spirit ripple. How? To each one of us it is between God and us. I hate what you hate too. ❤
Only recently, the church decided to NOT put out Holy water for the people during lent. Mommy Mary said in the last days the church would stop many traditions for modernism and become a synagogue of satan and many would perish. Beware satan's time is short and he's trying to take as many as possible. Orlando FL is desperate for the saints prayers. Not 1 Traditional Latin Mass. Pray for holy priest on fire for Jesus and Mary, doing what's right in boldness!!! His Bride made herself ready Revelation 19:7
Thank you for explaining what spirituality means and for making Therese of Lisieux interesting… I had skimmed through the book previously and found it tediously mawkish and ultra pious and boring …
Amazing talk. Thanks to all who made it possible for us to hear it. May God be praised and experienced more and more.
Saint Teresa pray for us Amen 🙏
I was born on the feast day of St. Therese ( October 01) and she's been instrumental in my calling to the priesthood. Currently in my pastoral year serving as a missionary in Thailand and by God's grace assigned in St. Therese of Lisieux Parish. Please pray for me Brothers and Sisters.
St. Therese teach us always your little way each day. Pray for us 🙏
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May Our Lord God Always bless you ; Father Bishop --wherever you pass around There’Saint Therese of Lisesoe 35:11
I feel a new Knowledge of Having , personally a good Trnsformation I mane Area of my life
Learned a lot from this Lenten talk. Thank you.
Thanks for the insightful and enriching sharing on the practical spirituality of St Therese. May our Lord bless you Bishop in all that you do.
This is so timely. I am going through an awful lot at work, which makes me feel so insecure, inferior and unwanted. I have many limitations especially when l need to speak in public l just freeze stutter and can’t get the message across. I am constantly accused of not communicating promptly but in my mind l need to gather facts, process and give out accurate information. I do forget to do things and sometimes l can’t do things as well as l should.
I am trying to change my job, look for something else to do but the feeling of brokenness cripples me. I walk with God pray my rosary daily and read the Word.
This reminder that God is close to us in our brokenness is so Powerful. Please Jesus let me experience your love for me. I can’t change myself. I need you and need to experience your Love and walk in confidence in spite of my many shortcomings and failures.
Jesus l trust in you. Amen
Indeed, in the Brokenness of Life, we find God. St Therese
Thank you Bishop
Thank you for speaking.
Thanks Bishop Greg for inspiring reflection 🙏
This was amazing! I struggle with the feeling that God does not love me so much bc of my brokenness or bc of my weaknesses. This line was interesting: “God doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved; that’s unreal.” Yes, sometimes God uses tough love. It reminded me of St. Teresa of Avila saying to God, no wonder you have so few friends. Thank you so much Bishop Greg. After I finished watching the video I thought about what you said and I felt God looking at me with so much love. It warmed my heart… 🌹❤️
Thankyou Bishop Greg. So many memories of when I could attend carmel myself and had become a Secular member. God called me into Carmel.. yes through much pain and inability and suffering in my life. His Love caused me to fall in love with Jesus and this turned my life upside down because my husband "didn't know me any more " he said. Our PP. gave me a book called "Story of a Soul" (later also St. Teresa and St. John). He kept saying to me: "You need to speak to the carmelites." Finally I said: "alright where are these carmelites?"and took me to speak to the Carmelites, then at Box Hill in Victoria. What a Blessing to know I wasn't going completely mad. The LOVE I had experienced and the suffering were all part of of the "journey".. as God calls the soul back to Himself.
May He be blessed and praised for ever.
Thank you Bishop Greg for this moment of grace.
Thank you for you Lenten awakening .. talk .. it gives peace in our heart ..
St Therese of Liseaux . Thank you so much for touching my life
Thank you Bishop Greg. ! Inspiring talk! Gratefully ,from the Philippines.
Absolutely every Catholic must listen to this.. Love from Sri Lanka
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on St.Therese. This is just what I needed to hear today.
This talk made me understand how important is to love our own smallness. Thanks!
Beautiful talk. It's good to change our mindset like Therese did. Come to me, Lord, in my brokenness and weaknesses, do not it away. Come to me in my real nature lord. Thank you Bishop. Honor and glory to you father God. Please pray for us mama mary for those of us struggling with perfection and change our mindset like therese did!
Thank you Bishop!
My family started watching during the pandemic. May tne Holy Spirit continue strengthening you!
Thank you Bishop for doing this. Inspiring and much appreciated ❤
Thank you for sharing the Lenten Reflection. May our Almighty God bless Lismore Diocese and His church.
My brokenness is my struggle to reach God. What an inspiration!
Thank you Bishop Greg for the Lenten reflection. Yes, Jesus is in our brokenness. God bless and peace be to you. ❤
Great talk. I am in love with St. Therese that I too seek her guidance and intercessions.
Though about the topic of theology vs spirituality, I believe that we cannot simply dismiss theology because it is also the knowledge of knowing God thus making us love Him more. Some people might have achieved spirituality because they have learned through Theology, God. And those who already have the spirituality, thus being able to experience God, are wanting to know about Him more. In this regard I believe the spiritual person then goes on the journey of expanding his/her knowledge of God (the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, the Blessed Mother, the prayers, etc…) they are able to obtain a deeper understanding then are able to love God more.
Thank you rev. Bishop Greg ocd for the inspire talk about St.Therese of Lisieuk. God bless you and all the the audiences.
Had been waiting for this! God bless you, Bishop Greg!
Thank Bishop Greg! God bless you🙌
❤ I have experienced the love of the Holy Spirit. Tremendous Pure Love going through all my body cells. I was no longer attached to a medical physician I was free from that attachment . I was myself again with The Holy Spirit as my attachment. I was also freed from a bad relationship. And a sin was wiped away in a flash. In Peace. Etc etc I'm writing about it all.
I love God very much . He is my life.❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing the lenten reflection
Something new haven't heard before.
Amen and God bless you Honorable Bishop.
I don't feel so bad about my weakness God is with me .
My name is Deborah. My confirmation name is Felicity. This was decided after years of being in the choir leading the congregation😊
Thank Bishop Graig for this wonderful talk! I truly experienced a rose’s miracle in 2009, until 2 years later (2011 ) before my baptism it was time for me to choose my baptism name, I just dared to share the miracle at RCIA group meeting…then, my sponsor told me that the rose miracle I experienced 2 years ago was from St Therese…. It makes me tearing every time I tell this true experience 😢😢
Thank you, Bishop Greg for sahring about St Therese Lisiuex and her spirituality.
Wow.
Those last 8 minutes are life-changing.
Thank you for sharing your insights. I've been enlightened.
My second name is Therese. When I was born on 8 December 1947 I had a health problem. I could not eat and was expected to die. The hospital in Baden (Switzerland) where I was born was run by nuns at that time. The nuns felt I needed a second name after Marie and I was named after Therese of Lisieux. Now I understand why the nuns insisted that my mother gives me a second name when I was baptised after 5 days. Three years later my mother had my sister. She has only one name called Ursula. Thank you Bishop Greg.
Thank you Bishop Greg for this inspiring talk
I was so touched by your talk.I always had a devotion to St Therese.Maybe that was why I came upon this beautiful talk.
God bless you always
God has been so very generous to me througout my life, I know he hears me but for some reason I have not experience God's love for me. Please pray that I may come to experience God's love so that I can love others as He loves.
love this very very much...thanks, Bishop for the beautiful, broad, detailed explanation, enlightening, inspiring talk on St. Therese
Inspiring message amen
Indeed, spirituality is the experience of God in our life. I agree that we can most feel God's presence in times of uncertainties and sufferings. That I personally experienced. His presence is so much felt and comforting.
Bishop Greg thank you
Thank You 🙏 ❤
Incredible talk, especially from 24 minutes on. I could keep listening to that over and over ❤
Very interesting and helpful. Thank you.❤
Bishop Greg: “God meet us in the complexity of what it is to be human.” So beautiful, thank You so much Bishop Greg 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for such a profound message. Richard Luscombe
Thank you for this talk, which has given me so much to dwell on and pray through. I have been blessed by your explanations and by your Sunday homilies in the online masses, to which I listen.
Thanks❤
Thank you Bishop fiat praying for all our needs. Amen 🙏 graces indulgences con versions for all humble holy beings obedience is patient persevere and grace and mercy and 😊❤
⛪My Lord, thank you. You spoke profoundly on the brokenness of St. Therese. One of her siblings now Ven. Leonie Martin was also a very suffering and broken soul. Not charming in any way, not mentally gifted like Therese and her other siblings and with a nasty skin condition from infancy to her death also in suffering found God. The Little Way was her bedside book. That wonderful family DID suffer and won Heaven "by violence. " Looking forward to Pt. II. God bless.
After Jesús Christ the most important person is the Virgin Mary! ❤
Also, I just started and formally became a real member of International Lay Carmelite in Mar 5th 2024.
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I heard of Edith the Jewess who became a Catholic nun and ended her life in a concentration camp.
In the deep silence 🤐 ❤
Bishop, When do we expect the next 2 episodes of your talk?
Episode 2 is available now, and Episode 3 tomorrow evening
Bergoglio is DESTROYING the Church Therese loves
I would disagree with Teresa of Avila on that point as the things I do not like are injustice, racial hatred, genocide, cruelty to animals and environmental destruction and I think God hates those things also.
Hope I help. Theresa looked at her own brokenness. We each feels like we are weak in evil. God uses our one spirit to do much if we ask God to take us in small way to help us makes a difference. Parts of God's plan may be small but like a pebble in a pond. Ripples occur. God does hate what you hate. He wants us to trust him and allow us to be a holy spirit ripple. How? To each one of us it is between God and us. I hate what you hate too. ❤
Only recently, the church decided to NOT put out Holy water for the people during lent. Mommy Mary said in the last days the church would stop many traditions for modernism and become a synagogue of satan and many would perish. Beware satan's time is short and he's trying to take as many as possible. Orlando FL is desperate for the saints prayers. Not 1 Traditional Latin Mass. Pray for holy priest on fire for Jesus and Mary, doing what's right in boldness!!! His Bride made herself ready Revelation 19:7
Bergoglio is nothing like a Carmelite. He may carry a copy of St. Therese's biography but he is so very distant from her and her spirituality.
Thank you for explaining what spirituality means and for making Therese of Lisieux interesting… I had skimmed through the book previously and found it tediously mawkish and ultra pious and boring …
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You're wondering after the beast.
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