I'll be ordained very soon here in Brazil (the country) and father John is my inspiration. I ask God to be a little bit like him. His sermons touch me deeply. Thank you.
May Jesus bless you abundantly today and always thankyou for answering the call to the Holy life may you be truly blessed and always faithful to the TRUTH GOD BLESS YOU😁 YOU ARE IN MY PRAYERS 🔥
May our Lord Jesus guard you and guide you into the heavenly kingdom. May Our Lady wrap you in her mantle. Cling to the Sacred and the Immaculate Hearts!
As a person who thinks too much (especially about myself and my identity), and doesn't act enough, this is a good reminder. I AM God's son, and it's time to do His work.
A priest gave us "homework" one week. He told us to remind ourselves before sleep every night for the next week, "I am a beloved son (or daughter) of God." I've ended up incorporating it into my Examen. It's powerful.
@@Wgaither1 it's the intent and full consent of the will that makes a sin mortal and it's us who choose to turn away from God in those circumstances not the other way around...he NEVER gives up on us.
It is time - long past time - to stop asking and stop wondering who we are and what is our purpose. To stop making noise and listen to God; He knows who we are and will tell us what He needs us to do. And the unsettling anxiety of "who am I" will be replaced with the calming peace of I am His; here to do His will. God Bless you Fr. John.
Father touched on something that is so simple I'm wondering if it isn't too simplistic. 'Who am I' is self-centered. We're called to a focus outside ourselves (love God and love neighbor). The way out of self-centeredness is love.
Thanks Father John Hollowell for this homily. It came in the perfect moment for me as I was in such great need of an advice about this subject. Greetings from Brazil. God bless you.
Father, it's so easy to pick up the language and thoughts of popular culture and inadvertently mix them with Catholic language and beliefs. Thank you so much for clarifying what is Catholic and what isn't.
Before the semester started this year, my daughter half joked that she wanted to take off a semester to "find herself". I pointed to her and said "there you are, now get to school ". Yesterday she voiced that she wanted to be involved in some type of volunteer work. Like you pointed out, in volunteering is where she will truly begin to find herself.
Thanks for this amazing video And thanks to the technology I, as an Israeli living near Tel Aviv, can learn from an American priest Nadav from Ramat gan Israel
Stop trying to find yourself. Start trying to find God at a deeper and always deeper level. The more you find Him and get to know Him the more you'll find yourself and get to know who you truly are and were truly meant to be.
Thank You Fr Hollowell. It's gonna be my birthday tomorrow, November 2. I'm gonna be 36. I'm currently helping two young girls (one is 19 and the other is 25) in their college studies and personal concerns. My desire is that I be like Jesus to the samaritan woman and help these girls find meaning, purpose, fulfullment, and happiness in their lives as they live it out. I hope that I be a good masculine elder brother of some sort, role model, and friend to them. That I keep them safe, yes even from myself. And that through me, they'll know Jesus. I also hope and pray that they graduate well from college, and the younger one become a CPA-Lawyer, while the older one easily find meaningful work once she graduates. I hope I succeed in helping them in that. I love them very much Fr. I hope God will have mercy on us and keep all of us safe. And I hope i succeed in leading them to goodness and to Christ. Happy All Saint's Day. Fr. Hollowell.
3 Hail Marys for you, Father. I hope the young people were convicted by this homily, as they begin their lives. May they grow in faith, hope, and charity, and in all the virtues, that they may fulfill their duties faithfully, and so become great Saints. I hope the older people, middle aged and elderly, were also convicted in the realization that it's never too late to begin, as long as their is breath in their lungs, and so be inspired to begin immediately.
Saints leads us to JESUS and show us that it's possible to be like JESUS and as Jesus wants us to be eventhough were human and sinners they show us the way to fight and wallk into the narrow road and Jedus grace makes everything possible. Thank you for your sermon 🙏
Let us focus on this Holy Sermon and I have decided that I know enough regarding what is going on at the vatican. It's time to channel my life to complete surrender to Christ through The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Amen
Thanks, Father, for your insightful homily! Thomas Howard is indeed a great thinker and writer. Well done! Here are some random comments (not critiques!) for your consideration. (1) The most important philosophical question issuing from the oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece was: "Know thyself!" (2) In the Gospels (e.g., Mt 16), Our Blessed Lord asked the Disciples the all-important question, "Who do you say that I AM? To which question, the Blessed Apostle, St. Peter, responded unequivocally with words directly inspired by the Heavenly Father: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." (3) The heretical Gnostics (2nd-5th centuries) laid the groundwork for dangerous "Pop Psychology," the lame "New Age Movement," and the ego-centric "Me Generation" because sadly they sought the answers to their existential questions in themselves rather than in perfect communion with the Triune God of Revelation, Tradition and the authentic Magisterium of Holy Mother Church. (4) St. Augustine of Hippo, fifth century Father and Doctor of the Church, wrote his autobiography entitled: "The Confessions." It is masterpiece, a classic of world literature and a must read classic of Catholic-Christianity. "The Confessions" are deeply spiritually and psychologically at one and the same time without any contradiction in terms. St. Augustine examines himself but not in vacuum. He seeks to understand the inner workings of his individual mind, heart, body, soul and spirit but from a divine and heavenly perspective ("sub specie aeternitatis"). (5) I also think that other great Saints, especially Mystics, have engaged in a certain amount of introspection without getting caught in the vortex of "naval gazing" to which modern man and post-modern are all too often prone as you pointed out in your homily. (6) In the fifth century, Pope St. Leo the Great, in one of his famous Christmas Sermons, one that is read in the Office of Readings for Christmas Day, exhorts: "Remember [Acknowledge], O Christian, thy dignity." (7) "Gaudium et Spes," the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World of the Second Vatican Council, paragraph 12 reflects on the question: "Who is man?" and in so doing cites Psalm 8:5-7. Blessed All Saints Day! Oremus pro invicem.
Powerful & insightful message Fr John 👼 Thank you 🙂 I believe we need to remember we are Children of God & created in God's image.👼 Let's spend more time being more like Jesus 👼 🌟 & less time wondering "who" we are in the world's view 🌎 🌟
Typo: I meant to write: This is in essence St. Newman's autobiographical defense..... It just dawned on me from my study of Sacred Scripture that the Evangelist, St. Luke, twice refers to Our Lady as having pondered within herself about the meaning of the events unfolding in her life. St. Luke employs the Greek verb "symballein" (symballousa) from which is derived the word for "Creed," ("Symbol" of Faith). "Symballein," literally means, "to throw together." In other words, Our Blessed Mother "threw together," or we can also say "pieced together," as in putting together a puzzle or mosaic, the events of her life in relationship to the Christ-child. Why did the Blessed Virgin Mary engage in this introspective process? One can assume that the Holy Virgin sought not so much to understand herself per se but to comprehend more fully God's Will for her life so that she could more effectively cooperate in the divine economy (plan) of salvation.
Great homily, Father. Just to add one thing- Joan of Arc wasn't a princess, she was a simple peasant girl. For me, that makes her & her story even more amazing.
Typo: I meant to write: "in a vacuum." A few more random comments (not critiques!): (1) In his Epistles, the Blessed Apostle, St. Paul, frequently refers to himself, especially his trials and tribulations. He seems at times to engage in a great deal of introspection, some of which can give the appearance of self-righteousness. Ultimately, however, we know that the great "Apostle of the Gentiles," discovered his righteousness as rooted in Christ Jesus the sole Savior and Redeemer of the human race. (2) St. Augustine, in his "Confessions," may have been too hard on himself especially when he castigated himself over stealing a pear from a neighbor's yard. :) (3) The recently canonized, Saint John Henry Newman, wrote a classic piece of prose, arguably the finest written in 19th century England, entitled: "Apologia pro Vita Sua." This is in essence of St. Newman's autobiographical defense of his conversion from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in 1845. In the "Apologia," as it is known for short, Newman delves into his own psyche but only insofar as he knows that his ideas and beliefs, his deepest thoughts and longings (desires) stem from God and lead back to Him. In the "Apologia," while reflecting on himself, Newman affords us a glimpse at the essence of true "religion," if we but bear in mind that "religion" is that which "binds us back" (re + legare) to God, our ultimate origins in Whom we find perfect personal fulfillment in the Communion of all the Saints in light.
Father hearing your saying "Who am I? A daughter/son of God" you reminded me of a poetry of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (who even known was protestant, was also deeply influenced by Catholicism) ua-cam.com/video/V6CIJaC_d_Q/v-deo.html
Pardon me Father Hollowell, Ramana Maharshi in the area of Arunachala in late nineteenth century in India. HIs prescription was to ask "Who Am I" to discover ultimately that "we" as egos don't exist and that our supreme Identity is God. This is Vedanta and it is a religious practice. Been there, done that. It is a dog chasing it's tail. It is not pointing to Christ, which is the main point.
Here's a very imperfect analogy. But I will risk it in the hope of greater understanding. Suppose I say to Barnabas, my sixteen-year-old son, "Clean up your room before you go to school. You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight." Well, suppose he plans poorly and leaves for school without cleaning the room. And suppose I discover the messy room and clean it. His afternoon fills up and he gets home just before it's time to leave for the game and realizes what he has done and feels terrible. He apologizes and humbly accepts the consequences. To which I say, "Barnabas, I am going to credit your apology and submission as a clean room. I said, 'You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight. Your room is clean. So you can go to the game." What I mean when I say, "I credit your apology as a clean room," is not that the apology is the clean room. Nor that he really cleaned his room. I cleaned it. It was pure grace. All I mean is that, in my way of reckoning - in my grace - his apology connects him with the promise given for a clean room. The clean room is his clean room. I credit it to him. Or, I credit his apology as a clean room. You can say it either way. And Paul said it both ways: "Faith is credited as righteousness," and "God credits righteousness to us through faith." So when God says, this morning, to those who believe in Christ, "I credit your faith as righteousness," he does not mean that your faith is righteousness. He means that your faith connects you to God's righteousness.
Rip ourselves and it's happening many going off their Heads, one we are most aware people turning away or would say leaving the Church. But scripture is true as it's said Bless is whom who saves their Spirit and Body.
Isn't your sentence, "Stop trying to find yourself" just a more polite way of saying, "Quit chasing your own tail?" If so I agree with you that there is way too many hedonistic people around chasing their own tail.
I'll be ordained very soon here in Brazil (the country) and father John is my inspiration. I ask God to be a little bit like him. His sermons touch me deeply. Thank you.
Thank you for answering this call!
Thank you for answering God's call to our holy church.
May Jesus bless you abundantly today and always thankyou for answering the call to the Holy life may you be truly blessed and always faithful to the TRUTH GOD BLESS YOU😁 YOU ARE IN MY PRAYERS 🔥
May our Lord Jesus guard you and guide you into the heavenly kingdom. May Our Lady wrap you in her mantle. Cling to the Sacred and the Immaculate Hearts!
All the best!
As a person who thinks too much (especially about myself and my identity), and doesn't act enough, this is a good reminder. I AM God's son, and it's time to do His work.
A priest gave us "homework" one week. He told us to remind ourselves before sleep every night for the next week, "I am a beloved son (or daughter) of God." I've ended up incorporating it into my Examen. It's powerful.
KA Fleury So if you miss mass your Father in heaven disowns you until you go to confession
@@Wgaither1 it's the intent and full consent of the will that makes a sin mortal and it's us who choose to turn away from God in those circumstances not the other way around...he NEVER gives up on us.
Wow! Wish I had herd this 50 years ago!
It is time - long past time - to stop asking and stop wondering who we are and what is our purpose. To stop making noise and listen to God; He knows who we are and will tell us what He needs us to do. And the unsettling anxiety of "who am I" will be replaced with the calming peace of I am His; here to do His will. God Bless you Fr. John.
Father touched on something that is so simple I'm wondering if it isn't too simplistic. 'Who am I' is self-centered. We're called to a focus outside ourselves (love God and love neighbor). The way out of self-centeredness is love.
Thanks Father John Hollowell for this homily. It came in the perfect moment for me as I was in such great need of an advice about this subject. Greetings from Brazil. God bless you.
Love that line- “you are mine”. Great job Father... reminding us that we belong to God.
Father, it's so easy to pick up the language and thoughts of popular culture and inadvertently mix them with Catholic language and beliefs. Thank you so much for clarifying what is Catholic and what isn't.
Before the semester started this year, my daughter half joked that she wanted to take off a semester to "find herself". I pointed to her and said "there you are, now get to school ". Yesterday she voiced that she wanted to be involved in some type of volunteer work. Like you pointed out, in volunteering is where she will truly begin to find herself.
Thanks for this amazing video And thanks to the technology I, as an Israeli living near Tel Aviv, can learn from an American priest
Nadav from Ramat gan Israel
God bless you father
Stop trying to find yourself. Start trying to find God at a deeper and always deeper level. The more you find Him and get to know Him the more you'll find yourself and get to know who you truly are and were truly meant to be.
Very helpful. Glad I listened in.
This is a beautiful homily thank you
Thank You Fr Hollowell. It's gonna be my birthday tomorrow, November 2. I'm gonna be 36. I'm currently helping two young girls (one is 19 and the other is 25) in their college studies and personal concerns. My desire is that I be like Jesus to the samaritan woman and help these girls find meaning, purpose, fulfullment, and happiness in their lives as they live it out. I hope that I be a good masculine elder brother of some sort, role model, and friend to them. That I keep them safe, yes even from myself. And that through me, they'll know Jesus.
I also hope and pray that they graduate well from college, and the younger one become a CPA-Lawyer, while the older one easily find meaningful work once she graduates. I hope I succeed in helping them in that.
I love them very much Fr. I hope God will have mercy on us and keep all of us safe. And I hope i succeed in leading them to goodness and to Christ.
Happy All Saint's Day. Fr. Hollowell.
Good wok. Bro.
@@jenwu68 Thanks. Jen. :) Please pray for me. :)
@@musicsavantaccountant5856 sure.
Thank you Father!
Thank You my Lord. By Your precious Blood, I AM YOURS!
Thank you so much. You are so blessed. Such insightful sermons. Slava Isusu kristu.
Thank you.
3 Hail Marys for you, Father. I hope the young people were convicted by this homily, as they begin their lives. May they grow in faith, hope, and charity, and in all the virtues, that they may fulfill their duties faithfully, and so become great Saints. I hope the older people, middle aged and elderly, were also convicted in the realization that it's never too late to begin, as long as their is breath in their lungs, and so be inspired to begin immediately.
Saints leads us to JESUS and show us that it's possible to be like JESUS and as Jesus wants us to be eventhough were human and sinners they show us the way to fight and wallk into the narrow road and Jedus grace makes everything possible. Thank you for your sermon 🙏
EXCELLENT! Thank you Fr. John!
Thank you father for your wisdom !
You are a good priest, Father John. Such good words. Simplistic? Maybe so but very thought provoking. Wake up!!!
Let us focus on this Holy Sermon and I have decided that I know enough regarding what is going on at the vatican. It's time to channel my life to complete surrender to Christ through The Immaculate Heart of Mary. Amen
Amen
Thanks, Father, for your insightful homily!
Thomas Howard is indeed a great thinker and writer.
Well done!
Here are some random comments (not critiques!) for your consideration.
(1) The most important philosophical question issuing from the oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece was: "Know thyself!"
(2) In the Gospels (e.g., Mt 16), Our Blessed Lord asked the Disciples the all-important question, "Who do you say that I AM? To which question, the Blessed Apostle, St. Peter, responded unequivocally with words directly inspired by the Heavenly Father: "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God."
(3) The heretical Gnostics (2nd-5th centuries) laid the groundwork for dangerous "Pop Psychology," the lame "New Age Movement," and the ego-centric "Me Generation" because sadly they sought the answers to their existential questions in themselves rather than in perfect communion with the Triune God of Revelation, Tradition and the authentic Magisterium of Holy Mother Church.
(4) St. Augustine of Hippo, fifth century Father and Doctor of the Church, wrote his autobiography entitled: "The Confessions." It is masterpiece, a classic of world literature and a must read classic of Catholic-Christianity.
"The Confessions" are deeply spiritually and psychologically at one and the same time without any contradiction in terms.
St. Augustine examines himself but not in vacuum. He seeks to understand the inner workings of his individual mind, heart, body, soul and spirit but from a divine and heavenly perspective ("sub specie aeternitatis").
(5) I also think that other great Saints, especially Mystics, have engaged in a certain amount of introspection without getting caught in the vortex of "naval gazing" to which modern man and post-modern are all too often prone as you pointed out in your homily.
(6) In the fifth century, Pope St. Leo the Great, in one of his famous Christmas Sermons, one that is read in the Office of Readings for Christmas Day, exhorts: "Remember [Acknowledge], O Christian, thy dignity."
(7) "Gaudium et Spes," the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World of the Second Vatican Council, paragraph 12 reflects on the question: "Who is man?" and in so doing cites Psalm 8:5-7.
Blessed All Saints Day!
Oremus pro invicem.
Amen🙏🙇🙏.
Powerful & insightful message Fr John 👼 Thank you 🙂 I believe we need to remember we are Children of God & created in God's image.👼 Let's spend more time being more like Jesus 👼 🌟 & less time wondering "who" we are in the world's view 🌎 🌟
Sound teaching and advice
Typo: I meant to write: This is in essence St. Newman's autobiographical defense.....
It just dawned on me from my study of Sacred Scripture that the Evangelist, St. Luke, twice refers to Our Lady as having pondered within herself about the meaning of the events unfolding in her life.
St. Luke employs the Greek verb "symballein" (symballousa) from which is derived the word for "Creed," ("Symbol" of Faith). "Symballein," literally means, "to throw together."
In other words, Our Blessed Mother "threw together," or we can also say "pieced together," as in putting together a puzzle or mosaic, the events of her life in relationship to the Christ-child.
Why did the Blessed Virgin Mary engage in this introspective process?
One can assume that the Holy Virgin sought not so much to understand herself per se but to comprehend more fully God's Will for her life so that she could more effectively cooperate in the divine economy (plan) of salvation.
Thank God for you 👍🙏⛪️⛪️⛪️⛪️
We are the souls that has a bodys.😀
Very good.
Great homily, Father. Just to add one thing- Joan of Arc wasn't a princess, she was a simple peasant girl. For me, that makes her & her story even more amazing.
🕊🙏✝️❤🙌
Typo: I meant to write: "in a vacuum."
A few more random comments (not critiques!):
(1) In his Epistles, the Blessed Apostle, St. Paul, frequently refers to himself, especially his trials and tribulations. He seems at times to engage in a great deal of introspection, some of which can give the appearance of self-righteousness. Ultimately, however, we know that the great "Apostle of the Gentiles," discovered his righteousness as rooted in Christ Jesus the sole Savior and Redeemer of the human race.
(2) St. Augustine, in his "Confessions," may have been too hard on himself especially when he castigated himself over stealing a pear from a neighbor's yard. :)
(3) The recently canonized, Saint John Henry Newman, wrote a classic piece of prose, arguably the finest written in 19th century England, entitled: "Apologia pro Vita Sua."
This is in essence of St. Newman's autobiographical defense of his conversion from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in 1845.
In the "Apologia," as it is known for short, Newman delves into his own psyche but only insofar as he knows that his ideas and beliefs, his deepest thoughts and longings (desires) stem from God and lead back to Him.
In the "Apologia," while reflecting on himself, Newman affords us a glimpse at the essence of true "religion," if we but bear in mind that "religion" is that which "binds us back" (re + legare) to God, our ultimate origins in Whom we find perfect personal fulfillment in the Communion of all the Saints in light.
Father hearing your saying "Who am I? A daughter/son of God" you reminded me of a poetry of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (who even known was protestant, was also deeply influenced by Catholicism)
ua-cam.com/video/V6CIJaC_d_Q/v-deo.html
Pardon me Father Hollowell, Ramana Maharshi in the area of Arunachala in late nineteenth century in India. HIs prescription was to ask "Who Am I" to discover ultimately that "we" as egos don't exist and that our supreme Identity is God. This is Vedanta and it is a religious practice. Been there, done that. It is a dog chasing it's tail. It is not pointing to Christ, which is the main point.
Here's a very imperfect analogy. But I will risk it in the hope of greater understanding. Suppose I say to Barnabas, my sixteen-year-old son, "Clean up your room before you go to school. You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight." Well, suppose he plans poorly and leaves for school without cleaning the room. And suppose I discover the messy room and clean it. His afternoon fills up and he gets home just before it's time to leave for the game and realizes what he has done and feels terrible. He apologizes and humbly accepts the consequences.
To which I say, "Barnabas, I am going to credit your apology and submission as a clean room. I said, 'You must have a clean room, or you won't be able to go watch the game tonight. Your room is clean. So you can go to the game." What I mean when I say, "I credit your apology as a clean room," is not that the apology is the clean room. Nor that he really cleaned his room. I cleaned it. It was pure grace. All I mean is that, in my way of reckoning - in my grace - his apology connects him with the promise given for a clean room. The clean room is his clean room. I credit it to him. Or, I credit his apology as a clean room. You can say it either way. And Paul said it both ways: "Faith is credited as righteousness," and "God credits righteousness to us through faith."
So when God says, this morning, to those who believe in Christ, "I credit your faith as righteousness," he does not mean that your faith is righteousness. He means that your faith connects you to God's righteousness.
Hi Zell
Rip ourselves and it's happening many going off their Heads, one we are most aware people turning away or would say leaving the Church. But scripture is true as it's said Bless is whom who saves their Spirit and Body.
Isn't your sentence, "Stop trying to find yourself" just a more polite way of saying, "Quit chasing your own tail?" If so I agree with you that there is way too many hedonistic people around chasing their own tail.
Know thyself?