Is A Personal Relationship With Jesus A Catholic Thing? (Lent Reflection)
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- Hey Catholic, do you have a personal relationship with Jesus? This is a question Protestants sometimes ask of Catholics. How should we respond?
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You both are such a lovely couple. God bless.
Thank you so much!
For 35 years I thought going to mass every week was enough. But the Lord wants more. It took a trauma in my life for me to cry out to God. He will do what it takes to get to you. It’s been almost 7 years. During this time I have had a personal experience getting to know Jesus. A year later a similar prayer Novena lead me to knowing the Holy Spirit. I now pray for my family and anyone who does not know our precious Jesus personally that they ask him into their heart. Don’t wait till God calls you. He may use your middle name! 😳
I come from a protestant background am now Catholic. This is a great answer to our Protestant Christians on having a personal relationship with Jesus. Ken and Jannelle you put everything into perspective so well. I want more...thank you.
Thanks for journeying with us! God bless.
Thank you 🙏
This podcast you two have done has helped me tremendously this Lent. I feel that I have come leaps and bounds this year in holiness, and I have been doing the hours of the passion by servant of God Luisa Piccaretta well. Thank you so much for this! God bless you.
All praise be Jesus! Thank you for journeying with us Josephine.
Wow! Amen! Really very true. God bless you both and your ministry.
How’s my Lent going? Better question is how is my personal relationship going with Jesus…as a former Protestant and then a lukewarm Catholic…converted to an on fire Catholic GREAT. I have followed you for a couple of years and have struggled through your Saint reflections feeling like a failure because I just could not grasp or understand (this from a person that has a Masters degree)…my faith foundation and knowledge was weak. I have always believed in God by faith…but never had the relationship. You have helped me to grow so much…so far I “GET” what your daily reflections are telling me…I am so happy and grateful that I am GROWING.
Thank you so much for sharing and journeying with us! God bless.
Oh my! I was so happy to share this with others on Facebook. Even though I'm off of it for Lent I've still shared a few things without getting on it. I shared about how very personal a Catholics relationship is with Christ through Receiving of our Lord in the Eucharist. I so hope my friends will listen and think on this video.
Thank you for your ministry. If I lived even a few hours from you I'd love to go listen to Ken. As I'm in middle America that won't be possible. Maybe if it's recorded you can share with us.
Blessings❣️🙏💕
Thank you Ken & Janelle! I would say a Catholic has an altar call at each Mass! We go forth to the altar to receive Christ. Wish I lived near & could attend your church next week! I know it will be awesome!
Ken was our speaker at our Parish Mission several weeks ago in North Bay. I attended and wholeheartedly recommend that anyone living near Ken and Janelle go to listen to him. You will not regret it and it will be just what you need heading into Holy Week. Thank you Ken for coming to North Bay and May God bless you, Janelle and your beautiful children.
It was a joy to serve your parish!!!!
March 22, 2023
Your videos are so helpful!
Amen! Amen!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
God is watching over us all the time and the chance we get to surrender ourselves to Jesus at Mass is such a blessing. Thank you Janelle and Ken.
I love this message! Your priest is being a good shepherd, I pray all priests will reach to do this! At our Lenten Bible study last Sunday the one thing that stood out to me was the importance of going to confession as a sacrament, meaning we go to communion every Sunday and receive the sacrament of communion, as we should go to confession at least once a month, (even if we only have a couple small things on our heart and if the Holy Spirit has not shown you any mortal sins) just to receive the gift of the sacrament of confession! This was eye opening to me! Receive confession just as the sacrament it is! 🙏❤️
Thanks to you ken and janelle
Be Catholic is a Gift to follow Jesus in all the Sacraments how Blessed are we to have a Personal relationship with Christ every Catholic should Rejoice in their Faith and Grow deeper in Gods Grace's.
God blessings on you Both Ken and Jenelle for this Lenten Journey. 🙏🏻
Thank you for your messages each day.
You are so welcome Kathy. Thanks for watching.
We left the Catholic church for a Protestant church over thirty years ago; we have come back to the church and been practicing the Catholic faith for 10+ years now. This topic was always a struggle for us when we were early Catholics and we thought in some way that we would be closer to Jesus in the protestant church. it didn't turn out that way. Because of things that were happening in the background, we were feeling lost in the protestant church;. It was difficult to place a finger on one reason for this but one thing is certain the absence of the sacraments certainly had an effect on our discouragement. The Holy Sprit guided us back to the Catholic church, where we discovered that we are closer to Jesus back in our Catholic faith than we have ever been; your explanation is right on the money Ken and Janelle as we cherish the sacraments more than we have ever done. We discovered many good things in our journey in the protestant church, but the one thing that we knew that was missing in our walk with Jesus was the sacraments. Thank you to both of you for shedding light on the importance of the sacraments; they are more relevant in our Catholic faith than many realize.
God is so good. I'm having a great opportunity to travel to Vietnam, Hanoi and Saigon. I participated in the mass, and wow... Even i didn't know any word in Vietnamese, when priest rise up the bread and wine/ body and blood my heart speed the beats, and I was embraced with grace, love by God. Holy trinity, our Catholic apostolic church under Pope,Vatican , is a treasury. All around the world the same bible, the same rituals, the same message. Jesus , I trust in you , his mother Our Lady, St Joseph, people praying rosary, people waiting to go to the confession. What a huge, wonderfully legacy missionaries did. And in a country which is socialist/communism, what an infinite miracles.
I hope I am not the only one, but I truly can focus better when only one of you do the videos.😇🙏🏻✝️💐
Moved by the reminder that our sacraments are our personal encounters and relationship with Christ and our altar call. In particular Kens comments about our standing up for Eucharist to accept body blood soul and divinity
Amen! I lived what you were saying about Altar calls and the Eucharist. You are 100% on spot, we are called and we answer at Communion. I wish we could have you speak at our parrish. I think you're very dynamic. God bless. 🙏🥰 p.s. I missed this one during Lent 🤔🤷🏻♀️
I also feel like I’m on track this Lent Season. Our parish will have our Parish Mission and the day for Confession next week and our Stations of the Cross every Friday this Lent. Thank you so much for your podcast. You have a very beautiful family. God bless!
God bless you both, you look so alike and truly meant to be in your Holy union. God Bless everyone here.
Thank you! I feel like my lent got a little derailed with my twins waking frequently through the night, but I also feel like the Lord could be pulling me closer to Him through this distraction in how I choose to push through and handle the tough moments with my children.
I finally caught up with watching this excellent Catholic Orthodox video too, Ken and Janelle 👍! I've experienced an obstinate anti-Catholic decades ago who was raised Catholic who absolutely refused to believe this that you said when I told him this back then, so don't let your guard down about them!
It was funny when you mentioned standing in the back of the gym. My church in Plano Texas is also being rebuilt and we have mass in the gym. I love it.
🙏❤😊
We personally profess at every Mass at least 4 times. 1. At the begining of Mass we recite the Confiteor prayer durin the Penitential Rite, acknowledging their venial sins, and the priest will grant a General Absolution to prepare everyone to receive the Body and Blood of Christ through Communion. 2. When reciting Apostles Creed. 3. Right prior to communion and Communion itself. 4. Personal prayers after receiving communion.
Fiat! Thank you Lord for living in your eternal now, God bless you Ken and Jenelle, Fiat! 🙏🏼💕🕊✝️
Hmmmm, I have gone for 3 confessions already but I still feel glum. Usually, confessions bring me joy but lately it is not doing the trick 😕.
I am just distracted. This Lent has been so so for me. I pray for a better HOLY Week.
Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Any chance the parish mission could be livestreamed or recorded? That would be great :)
We chose Jesus every day when we make the sign of the cross.
Beautiful
I used to do a Bible study at an evangelical Latino church to practice my Spanish and I admit I enjoyed the altar calls. but they also only did an eucharist once a month and the sermon although quite good were long. Some subtleties I felt were lost. I have a few Iranian friends who are in RCIA who were alienated by their islamic heritage due to its hyper legalism and they asked me why catholicism and not other Christian churches and I replied "its got a deep sense of history like Orthodoxy but without being frozen in time or overly tied to ethnicity and the better parts of protestantism in its call to inclusion and newness but rooted in sacraments and tradition. "Ever ancent, ever new"
Will the mission be available to watch on line? Should be great! God bless you 🙏🏻✝
Thank you so much....lm a born cathloic, but battling having a relationship with Christ our Saviour....with God all is possible...😇🔥🕊😥🙏🙏🙏Please say a prayer for me. God's blessings.,🙏🙏🙏💜🛐
I get discouraged by people who bring their kids to receive the sacraments then never show up again. I recall a reconciliation service that included children making their first confession but 99% of their parents never went that evening! I also believe God recognizes empty gestures we make such as going through all the motions but not internalizing anything in our hearts. A personal relationship with Christ is a fairly new concept to many Catholics and will take time to become our norm. I dabbled with fundamentalism in university then upon returing to mass one Sunday I realized the priest was saying the same thing I was hearing at the fundamentalist church i.e. personalizing one's faith.
Will the mission be taped? I live on the other side of the country but I would love to participate. ❤️
Yes, if any of it is recorded it would be wonderful to make that available (especially for those of us many miles away).
Hi Cynthia - no it will not be taped. Sorry.
Could you put the mission on YT? That would be wonderful for your Australian viewers.
March 22, 2023
It seems like I get strong in one element such as prayers but then get weak on fasting. Then I get stronger on fasting but fall weak on prayer. It seems like my devotions vacillate throughout Lent. 🤦♀️
Hi Ken and Janelle- tomorrow I’m heading into the hospital- unknown issues, but grave. Can you say a prayer for me please? Thank you🙏
Are you streaming the mission?
I see you've been active so would really like you to reply to my message.
What convinced you to believe this magical, unheard, invisible deity?
The sure reality of good and evil, moral direction. There can’t be goodness without a source. The peace that comes over you when you put your faith and trust in God…that true peace cannot be found anywhere else. I have looked for it…only through having a relationship with the only one who truly loves me. I pray that you find this relationship, peace and love through faith in the One True Living God…but first you have to open your mind and ❤….nothing magical and if you listen He speaks volumes. Look around as He is visible…the sunset, a baby’s laughter, an elderly couple holding hands…
@@tsr3779 Hello TSR thanks for replying.
I'll break down the problems with it for you:
You say,
"There can’t be goodness without a source"
This is just a baseless claim being made.
For you to 'claim' a source you need to show that source. You are doing circular reasoning which is a fallacy.
I am not sure if you will see that but just have a little think about what you are saying.
Next, you said,
"peace that comes over you when you put your faith and trust in God"
The problem with this is it does not follow through. Muslims, Hindus, LDS, JWs all people in religion can easily say that about their god(s). So it's without a base and is without any use to prove anything.
Secular people have this peace as well so are you saying that is not real peace because if you are that needs proving with data or good evidence.
Next, you say,
"nothing magical and if you listen He speaks volumes"
This also fails as I know so many complete and true believers that hear absolutely nothing. Stone silence is the phrase they use.
Finally, you do a 'look at the world' argument with this,
"Look around as He is visible…the sunset, a baby’s laughter, an elderly couple holding hands"
Again this fails in so many ways.
It's subjective because any religion can and does claim such proof.
This also fails when you see dying children in a cancer ward. Then you need to pull out the equally problematic 'sin' argument.
Unfortunately, you have not provided anything in the way that you think you have.
I am not being mean but you must understand that these flowery statements are thrown out by religions to help 'prop' up people that have already been convinced.
No one can believe any claim until the are convinced first.
So please tell me what convinced you?
If you have any actual good and sufficient evidence I would really want to know what that is. I mean something convinced you, what was that if you can remember?
Thanks
Alice
I keep saying I really didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus until I became Catholic or after I decided to convert. I was Protestant for 55 years although I was baptized Catholic.
This has been my best Lent since becoming Catholic 3 years ago. I decided to give up Facebook since I confess wasted time at each confession solely due to Facebook. Some days I spend 6-8 hours or more. This Lent, I've spent less than 2 hours. I would get on Facebook on the first 3 Sundays of Lent since Sunday isn't a penance day. The rest of Lent I'm staying off. I'm replacing it with St Thérèse. I've made it a goal to attend mass every day and I read a book by John Paul Thomas on the Lessons of St Thérèse. I've started a prayer journal and write my prayers, like writing letters to my best friend and He is my best friend. Prior to Lent, I had several on social media attack my comments because I defended God's truth so I started a 54 day rosary novena for the persecution of the Church. I have two more weeks, as I'm on day 39.
I always enjoy your videos. God bless both of you!