Thank you Father for your sermon. I am sadden that some of family members are not active in their faith. I will continue to pray for them every day. God bless you. 🙏🏻✝️
*This may be long, sorry. I pray it encourages someone* Ironically it was my Catholic parents who were discontent with Vatican II and were sucked into the hippy movement not too long after that walked away from an unbroken chain of Catholics in our family that we can trace back extremely far, especially in our French ancestry. God in all of His greatness said He blesses a thousand generations to the faithful, and He does not lie. My parents had three daughters, I was the youngest born in 1979. My parents had started to attend a protestant church and I was the only baby at birth that received a "dedication" to Jesus. That same year Saint Pope John Paul II had come to New York and even though my mother was angry towards her Catholic upbringing she brought me at 7 months old to receive a blessing from him. Mom held bible study groups in our basement, and had her free love hippy folks singing on their guitars to Jesus. Although my sisters were not attracted to singing to the Lord, I couldn't get enough of it. Growing up in a culturally Italian Catholic area, all of my friends were Catholic and my best friends dad always brought me to mass. The Parish Pastor Father Angelo would always come and bless me and kiss my head saying "oh, my little protestant child, God has big plans for you." When I was nine years of age my Aunt purchased a Bible for me, and one day I prayed while kneeling before an image of Jesus in the garden of gethsemane my mom had hanging on our wall. I said Jesus you said ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you, well I am knocking. I opened my bible and it opened to the book of revelation and read "and lo, in Heaven, an open door." I jumped up and shouted "HE is real" but to my disappointment, no one cared. Throughout my upbringing I failed in many ways but God never abandoned me, He allowed me to find grace at every turn, and He pursued me relentlessly through others. Three things happened that brought to my knees in submission. 1) My sins weighed me down until I fell to the floor one night facing the window in my bedroom, I lay upon the floor with arms outstretched like King David and poured myself out before the Lord through tears. I was truly broken in contrition, and it was not only for me, I managed to murmur through the tears "have mercy on us all, Father." 2) Our Blessed Mother allowed me to feel her sorrow one night while I looked upon my sons face. My heart was torn into a million pieces. 3) I started to finally go through what I inherited from my dads passing. His grandmother raised him, a very devout Catholic, and I inherited ALL of her religious items. Including the original print of Visits to Jesus in the tabernacle by Father Lasance from the late 1800s. My great-grandmothers father grew up with Father Lasance in Ohio, and this book was his. I even had my dads first missal from his childhood with his baptismal, communion, and confirmation record in the front. This Easter Vigil in the evening, I was received into the Catholic Church, and I brought my youngest two children with me. My parents had three daughters--and while my sisters didn't return, three souls from our family DID! Have faith, do not lose heart! GOD's timing is always PERFECT. God Bless you all.
What a wonderful homily Fr Meyer! You have calmed my heart some. All three of our kids have walked away from our beloved Catholic faith and I pray for them daily for them to come back. And per your suggestion, I will pray for the conversion of all people, because this longing for them to return is so strong. 🙏🙏🙏
My daughter walked away from the Catholic Church. She had a son but had him baptized in an Episcopal Church. She then adopted a little girl but will not tell me if she is baptized. I pray for all parents grandparents. God parents that someone will come into their children's life and bring them back home to the Catholic Church. Please pray for my daughter and grandchildren Thank you, Father Meyer for your wonderful homily!
@@Joseph-es6muwhat a shame! Find another parish. There are good priests who love Our Lord too much to have money and resentment about money to separate a child led from the awesome gift of receiving Jesus I Communion.
John, my Brethren. I pulled my kids out of the Catholic church. It was focused on money not for the salvation of our souls with God. My kids were baptized and 1st Eucharist in Catholic church. Conformation in the Episcopal church. I couldn't afford to be Catholic.
my mother abandoned me and I found her when I was 63... she still wanted nothing to do with me. some people DO forget their children, wish it were not so, Father
I am a senior citizen and I live at my son's house. He has left the Faith.So I pray for him and try to be a good Catholic to set an example for him. That's all I can do, you can't push the Faith down anyone's throat.
Great homily Father, I will pray to the lord that my son finds Jesus Christ. I rally enjoy watching all your homilies, they are very inspirational, thank you.
Thank you Fr. Jonathan Meyer for a Great homily , Listening to your homily was very much comforting... God bless you. I will pray to the Lord that all My Children, My Friends, and My Family finds Jesus Christ. I really enjoy watching all your homilies, they are very inspirational, Thank you.💞🙏✝️🛐🙏💞
My three daughters 29 to 42 yrs of age refused to get closer to the Lord. I am shattered, give me the strength and courage, I cannot fight them anymore. My words never count to show the church doors.thank you father, I love your preaching. Just find out about it. God bless Amen.
Thanks Father Meyer for your thoughtful spiritual advice. I'm from North Carolina but am not home right now. I'm sending this video to my kids's mother and my sister. But also to my kids. So they know what God Our Father suffers when He sees them moving away from HIM.
Beautifully said. We must pray for ALL the world. That all can be brought back into the fold. God loves each of us with a undying love no matter what our position in life. He himself says EACH ONE IS MY FAVORITE. Thanks be to God.
Great homily Father. In my case, my ex-wife left the faith and expressed anger towards the Church based on watching videos online that were so inaccurate. I still pray for her every day and know in my heart she will return; but the reality - it may many, many years.
Thank you so very much for this message. I have literally shed tears for my 2 daughters. Such a strong reminder that with God, all things are possible.
Absolutely brilliant and eye opening. When I search for Fr. Jonathan Meyers sermons I actually feel intoxicated with every word and thank God for such a gift.
“Slighiest inconvenience?” the desecration of the Holy Mass! There is a point when to abandon a situation is self preservation not surrendering. I’m still “fighting” for Jesus in a much better place. Pray for me and I for you. The Holy Orthodox Church is very much like the Roman Church of years ago.
My eldest son got married and I insisted that they have a Catholic deacon to marry them, (They didn't want to get married in our church.) not some half baked, fly by night, "rent-a-pastor". His wife is not Catholic, thats ok, but now their two young sons know alnost nothing about God. Their baptisms were done by these " pastors" , so I re- baptised them in my kitchen in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 🤷
I walked away from the Catholic Church after trying to get close to Christ but when I spent over 2 years reading the gospels and the introductions I stumbled upon allot of stuff that I thought was real and historical but found out it is not. Now I see what we know and what we don't. I accept what we know but have walked away from the man made dogma and council voted beliefs. I can no longer profess these nor adhere to having blind faith. To many changes, reiterations, vague explanations, interpretations and factless declarations. When I apply the gospels to real life they fall apart. I rely on the basics Yes there is a GOD, Yes there was a Christ Jesus but all the details we do not KNOW. I rely on science, the subatomic, the forces in the universe, the math and logic behind our world that makes GOD and Christ real. I am closer now to GOD than when I spent my life as a Catholic. To actually love GOD you have to discover the REAL TANGIBLE existence of such an alien force and being; beyond just reciting biblical stories.
I'm the opposite. Spent a lifetime in the Presbyterian Church only to find they weren't from God. After much studying of the Bible, early church, various faith organizations, I came home to the Catholic Church 4 years ago
We also need to ask why people are leavong the faith. I nearly left the church in 2020, because priests denied people communion, confession, and some instances annointing of the sick. But also because of the lack of reveremce, and the priests and lay people would not treat the Eucharist with reverence. People at my age who went to my church were also fake and anti-social. How are you supposed to know the love of God, when the practitioners deny you love and company? I then found a TLM parish, and I the community was strong, warm and welcoming, it actually felt like God was there, and the priests were treating the Eucharist like it is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. I don't doubt that people leave due to lack of a young people community, and lack of reverence.
Listen to your kids or whoever left the church that you care about. Engage with them like people and understand you should not be made to feel guilty by being presented they will go to hell. Go beyond religion and understand the world and life is huge and more than church. Talk and LISTEN TO WHY THESE PEOPLE LEFT RELIGION. PLEASE. LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN. DONT JUDGE. WHY SHOULD YOU? PRIESTS CONSTANTLY TELL YOU ONLY GOD SHOILD JUDGE. PLEASE IM BEGGING LISYEN AND BE VULNERABLE AND BREAK DOWN THE WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THEM. Leaving the Catholic Church and forgetting everyone indoctrinated with misinformation and obedience and guilt was the best decision in my life. I’m doing rounds looking back at the priests and people associated with the church who tricked me into thinking they were principled and good people. I hope one person reads this years from now and actually has genuine vulnerability speaking with someone not involved in the church anymore and most of all listens and actually hears what the person has to say. Just listen listen. Don’t feel like you need to correct someone and judge and interject. Please listen. Don’t try to turn someone back to the church. Listen and make it clear they know they can talk to you and build a relationship with you not founded on what the church says. But because you care for them. Full stop. Not because you care for them “even though, despite, etc” they are not religious. Trust me they can tell. Actually* hear*and be open to what they have to say. Acknowledge your feeling of why you may be hurt AND WHY then say and repeat they can say their feeling about why they left.
catholics they preaching exceeded and BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURE . contradict teaching of Christ you cannot heard From the priest wolves about the truth preaching the apostle of Christ... the priest wolves TEACH and preach by there OWNWILL SELFINTERPRETATION not by the will of God
Thank you Father for your sermon. I am sadden that some of family members are not active in their faith. I will continue to pray for them every day. God bless you. 🙏🏻✝️
What a Wonderful Homily father Jonathan. You give us such great hope, for our children who have left the faith. I needed that so much.
This is so comforting and so convicting. Blessed Mother, Sts. Monica & Augustine: pray for us!
*This may be long, sorry. I pray it encourages someone*
Ironically it was my Catholic parents who were discontent with Vatican II and were sucked into the hippy movement not too long after that walked away from an unbroken chain of Catholics in our family that we can trace back extremely far, especially in our French ancestry. God in all of His greatness said He blesses a thousand generations to the faithful, and He does not lie. My parents had three daughters, I was the youngest born in 1979. My parents had started to attend a protestant church and I was the only baby at birth that received a "dedication" to Jesus. That same year Saint Pope John Paul II had come to New York and even though my mother was angry towards her Catholic upbringing she brought me at 7 months old to receive a blessing from him. Mom held bible study groups in our basement, and had her free love hippy folks singing on their guitars to Jesus. Although my sisters were not attracted to singing to the Lord, I couldn't get enough of it. Growing up in a culturally Italian Catholic area, all of my friends were Catholic and my best friends dad always brought me to mass. The Parish Pastor Father Angelo would always come and bless me and kiss my head saying "oh, my little protestant child, God has big plans for you."
When I was nine years of age my Aunt purchased a Bible for me, and one day I prayed while kneeling before an image of Jesus in the garden of gethsemane my mom had hanging on our wall. I said Jesus you said ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened to you, well I am knocking. I opened my bible and it opened to the book of revelation and read "and lo, in Heaven, an open door." I jumped up and shouted "HE is real" but to my disappointment, no one cared. Throughout my upbringing I failed in many ways but God never abandoned me, He allowed me to find grace at every turn, and He pursued me relentlessly through others.
Three things happened that brought to my knees in submission.
1) My sins weighed me down until I fell to the floor one night facing the window in my bedroom, I lay upon the floor with arms outstretched like King David and poured myself out before the Lord through tears. I was truly broken in contrition, and it was not only for me, I managed to murmur through the tears "have mercy on us all, Father."
2) Our Blessed Mother allowed me to feel her sorrow one night while I looked upon my sons face. My heart was torn into a million pieces.
3) I started to finally go through what I inherited from my dads passing. His grandmother raised him, a very devout Catholic, and I inherited ALL of her religious items. Including the original print of Visits to Jesus in the tabernacle by Father Lasance from the late 1800s. My great-grandmothers father grew up with Father Lasance in Ohio, and this book was his. I even had my dads first missal from his childhood with his baptismal, communion, and confirmation record in the front.
This Easter Vigil in the evening, I was received into the Catholic Church, and I brought my youngest two children with me. My parents had three daughters--and while my sisters didn't return, three souls from our family DID!
Have faith, do not lose heart! GOD's timing is always PERFECT. God Bless you all.
Thank you for sharing!
I love your story so much!! Thank you for sharing!!
Welcome home!
Thank you Father for hope. Your words have given me a renewed hope for my daughter, her two children & their father. God Bless you!
What a wonderful homily Fr Meyer! You have calmed my heart some. All three of our kids have walked away from our beloved Catholic faith and I pray for them daily for them to come back. And per your suggestion, I will pray for the conversion of all people, because this longing for them to return is so strong. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Cheryl! I'm glad you found it helpful! Blessings!
I recite the Rosary several times per week with the intention of my children to revert to the Catholic faith.
And you don't want them running with false friends.
Thank you Father. Praying that all finds the Lord. Pray my children come back and my grandchildren get Baptist. God Bless
My daughter walked away from the Catholic Church.
She had a son but had him baptized in an Episcopal Church. She then adopted a little girl but will not tell me if she is baptized.
I pray for all parents grandparents. God parents that someone will come into their children's life and bring them back home to the Catholic Church.
Please pray for my daughter and grandchildren
Thank you, Father Meyer for your wonderful homily!
One Lord, one faith, one baptism. I didn't leave Rome. It left me. Charging four hundred bucks for my son's 1st Communion.
@@Joseph-es6muwhat a shame! Find another parish. There are good priests who love Our Lord too much to have money and resentment about money to separate a child led from the awesome gift of receiving Jesus I Communion.
John, my Brethren. I pulled my kids out of the Catholic church. It was focused on money not for the salvation of our souls with God. My kids were baptized and 1st Eucharist in Catholic church. Conformation in the Episcopal church.
I couldn't afford to be Catholic.
Pretty apparent catholics have a lot of money. I'm just a retired VA nurse. Blessings
Good for the daughter. Jesus is our comfort and strength.
This is an AMAZING homily Father Johnathan.
Healing. God Bless you ❤🙏
Thank you Father. It breaks my heart that my two sons left Jesus in the Sacraments and their faith. Your homily gave me comfort.
my mother abandoned me and I found her when I was 63... she still wanted nothing to do with me. some people DO forget their children, wish it were not so, Father
Take comfort that we have a loving Mother, Mary who Jesus appointed as mother of all when she stood at the foot of the cross as he was dying.
I loss my 47 year old son last May so i am grateful for your homily
We should have more priests like him, for he's very firm and people should listen to every priest what they have to say to save people's soul.
I am a senior citizen and I live at my son's house. He has left the Faith.So I pray for him and try to be a good Catholic to set an example for him. That's all I can do, you can't push the Faith down anyone's throat.
My heart aches for you 💔
Great homily Father, I will pray to the lord that my son finds Jesus Christ. I rally enjoy watching all your homilies, they are very inspirational, thank you.
God Bless You Father...and Protect you from all evil. ❤
Powerful words Father ....and a huge comfort. Thankyou. Amen ❤
We all have someone in our family that had fallen away from the faith. It hurts.
Monicas HOPE, pray and NEVER give up! 💗💔💗
Thank you Fr. Jonathan Meyer for a Great homily , Listening to your homily was very much comforting... God bless you.
I will pray to the Lord that all My Children, My Friends, and My Family finds Jesus Christ. I really enjoy watching all your homilies, they are very inspirational, Thank you.💞🙏✝️🛐🙏💞
I keep praying for my kids daily.
My three daughters 29 to 42 yrs of age refused to get closer to the Lord. I am shattered, give me the strength and courage, I cannot fight them anymore. My words never count to show the church doors.thank you father, I love your preaching. Just find out about it. God bless Amen.
Monica's HOPE! 💕 AND NEVER GIVE UP!
Thanks Father Meyer for your thoughtful spiritual advice. I'm from North Carolina but am not home right now. I'm sending this video to my kids's mother and my sister. But also to my kids. So they know what God Our Father suffers when He sees them moving away from HIM.
I will always be a North Carolinian. I'm from Lil Washington ❤now sequestered in MD
Great homily tkuuuuuu
Thanks for the video. Continue to preach them. God bless you.
Thank youFather for this message
Thanks Father so awesome sermon
Beautifully said. We must pray for ALL the world. That all can be brought back into the fold. God loves each of us with a undying love no matter what our position in life. He himself says EACH ONE IS MY FAVORITE. Thanks be to God.
It already aches me that they’re not going to church 😢often 🙏🙏🙏
ThankYou Father
Amen!!!Amen!!!Amen!!!🙏
That what I need to hear so much right now
Great homily Father. In my case, my ex-wife left the faith and expressed anger towards the Church based on watching videos online that were so inaccurate. I still pray for her every day and know in my heart she will return; but the reality - it may many, many years.
Thankyou Father So encouraging. May God Bless your efforts. ( Stirling. Scotland)
Thank 😢you so much 😢💔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
And YES, it is indeed a daily ache…… hurts so much….💔💔💔💔
I think about this sermon a lot. Thank you Father.
Salamat so much Father.
Never will I forget, Father 🙏✨
The pain is indeed the same for fathers, Father.
Thank you Father Jonathan Meyer you are truly blessed.
This is excellent, thank you for reminding us not to lose hope.
Thank you Father. Needed this more than you will ever know. God bless.
Thank you
Thanks be to God Amen
Thank you so very much for this message. I have literally shed tears for my 2 daughters. Such a strong reminder that with God, all things are possible.
In the Ministry I lead, there ARE tears, but we always leave the prayer service smiling because Monicas HOPE!
God Bless you Father
Nicola from London UK says... Praise be to God for such a priest... See ya in Heaven... Ciaooo
Absolutely brilliant and eye opening. When I search for Fr. Jonathan Meyers sermons I actually feel intoxicated with every word and thank God for such a gift.
I heard about Fr. Jonathan Meyer while listening to Fr. Donald Calloway's Medjugorje lecture.
Medjugoogoo is FAKE!!!!
@@timo4054 you will know it by its fruits. Many priests have found their vocation there.
@@dawntoonen3352 God can even make good from evil.
Fantastic as always!
Tim, I don’t hate anyone certainly not the Holy Father. He is the first among equals! Let’s pray!
“Slighiest inconvenience?” the desecration of the Holy Mass! There is a point when to abandon
a situation is self preservation not surrendering. I’m still “fighting” for Jesus in a much better place.
Pray for me and I for you. The Holy Orthodox Church is very much like the Roman Church of years
ago.
You always give good sermons Father. Can we bring back the communion rails?
Yes. We need to draw closer to God in every way possible.
My eldest son got married and I insisted that they have a Catholic deacon to marry them, (They didn't want to get married in our church.) not some half baked, fly by night, "rent-a-pastor". His wife is not Catholic, thats ok, but now their two young sons know alnost nothing about God. Their baptisms were done by these " pastors" , so I re- baptised them in my kitchen in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 🤷
Holy priest indeed
thank you father. where is all saints parish please
I walked away from the Catholic Church after trying to get close to Christ but when I spent over 2 years reading the gospels and the introductions I stumbled upon allot of stuff that I thought was real and historical but found out it is not. Now I see what we know and what we don't. I accept what we know but have walked away from the man made dogma and council voted beliefs. I can no longer profess these nor adhere to having blind faith. To many changes, reiterations, vague explanations, interpretations and factless declarations. When I apply the gospels to real life they fall apart. I rely on the basics Yes there is a GOD, Yes there was a Christ Jesus but all the details we do not KNOW. I rely on science, the subatomic, the forces in the universe, the math and logic behind our world that makes GOD and Christ real. I am closer now to GOD than when I spent my life as a Catholic. To actually love GOD you have to discover the REAL TANGIBLE existence of such an alien force and being; beyond just reciting biblical stories.
What did you find in the Gospels that you later found was not historical or real?
The whole story on the 3 kings. Watch bishop Barron Christmas Homile and says WE don't know the was 3 kings. It could have just been shepherds.
I'm the opposite. Spent a lifetime in the Presbyterian Church only to find they weren't from God. After much studying of the Bible, early church, various faith organizations, I came home to the Catholic Church 4 years ago
We also need to ask why people are leavong the faith. I nearly left the church in 2020, because priests denied people communion, confession, and some instances annointing of the sick. But also because of the lack of reveremce, and the priests and lay people would not treat the Eucharist with reverence. People at my age who went to my church were also fake and anti-social. How are you supposed to know the love of God, when the practitioners deny you love and company?
I then found a TLM parish, and I the community was strong, warm and welcoming, it actually felt like God was there, and the priests were treating the Eucharist like it is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
I don't doubt that people leave due to lack of a young people community, and lack of reverence.
Listen to your kids or whoever left the church that you care about. Engage with them like people and understand you should not be made to feel guilty by being presented they will go to hell. Go beyond religion and understand the world and life is huge and more than church.
Talk and LISTEN TO WHY THESE PEOPLE LEFT RELIGION. PLEASE. LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN. DONT JUDGE. WHY SHOULD YOU? PRIESTS CONSTANTLY TELL YOU ONLY GOD SHOILD JUDGE. PLEASE IM BEGGING LISYEN AND BE VULNERABLE AND BREAK DOWN THE WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THEM.
Leaving the Catholic Church and forgetting everyone indoctrinated with misinformation and obedience and guilt was the best decision in my life. I’m doing rounds looking back at the priests and people associated with the church who tricked me into thinking they were principled and good people. I hope one person reads this years from now and actually has genuine vulnerability speaking with someone not involved in the church anymore and most of all listens and actually hears what the person has to say. Just listen listen. Don’t feel like you need to correct someone and judge and interject. Please listen. Don’t try to turn someone back to the church. Listen and make it clear they know they can talk to you and build a relationship with you not founded on what the church says. But because you care for them. Full stop. Not because you care for them “even though, despite, etc” they are not religious. Trust me they can tell.
Actually* hear*and be open to what they have to say. Acknowledge your feeling of why you may be hurt AND WHY then say and repeat they can say their feeling about why they left.
Not St. Paul that was Saul who killed
Make the Mass Latin again.
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You look like Norman Bates!
Why do you attack a person on their looks?
Nice costume.
catholics they
preaching exceeded and BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURE . contradict teaching of Christ
you cannot heard From the priest wolves about the truth preaching the apostle of Christ...
the priest wolves TEACH and preach by there OWNWILL SELFINTERPRETATION not
by the will of God
:-) All catholic teachings are scriptual
...said the Protestant... Say, how many sects are you guys up to now?