Hi Bishop Greg. This is the 3rd time I've watched this video. I am forgetful and need to keep coming back to this video. The best part is each time I revisit this sight it puts me back to the path that I have learnt to take, that which I gone away from. I don't know if it makes sense but I think I need to keep coming back and keep learning. Thank you, Bishop Greg and Gerry. Praised be Jesus Christ! 👍🏻🤗
Thank YOu Lord for life and all blessings. Thank you dear Bishop Greg for this talk on prayers, I always find new insights into different aspects of my being catholic every time I listen to you.
Thank you Bishop Greg an inspiration and insightful way to teach us how to pray. I never felt so assured that God loves me with all my faults and imperfections I learned that I deserve His love earned the love but admitting that and leaving with it. you removed the guilt and place an abundant way to love and being loved by Our Lord, Our Saviour ❤️🙏
Thank you for this, Bishop Greg is a very inspiring speaker. The focus of the video shifts too much... it gets dizzy :). Focus on the Speaker would be better really. Thank you.
May the good Lord bless you for your good intentions, but no praying in the car? Can't agree with that. Pray without ceasing. Praying the rosary while driving is fine without endangering others even as one can walk and chew gum at the same time, or more commonly have a conversation with others in one's car or listen to the radio. True, praying in church or some quiet place is preferable, but people must use the time and occasions that life grants. Looking into Jesus' eyes etc. ... this is fine, but for most common people we simply pray at simpler levels, but this must be for the elite level of pray-ers. Suggestion: instead of spending so much time talking around points, but simply make them. It seems there's lots of peripheral comments that are really inessential. Anyways, perhaps some people like extra chatting. I had to use the forward arrows to skip ahead through the trivial parts at five seconds per arrow-click. Nice candles but repetitive the window shots became quite boring and distracting, fyi. Wow, after 25 minutes I'm still waiting to hear a substantial point about prayer. This talk goes in all sorts of directions without coming to a point yet. There is too much useless talk about distractions, thoughts, feelings, etc. All one does to pray is ... (wait for it) ... pray. So there are distractions. Keep praying. That's it. This is like teaching someone to ride a bike without pedaling a single revolution. My space ... my space ... my space ... useless. Just pray. Sorry to say, but this sounds like a presentation given to a retirees at a retirement home. Perhaps I'm too young for this talk. God is our Father - yes, got that a long time ago. Thanks. We want a relationship with God in prayer ... sure, fine. got it already. It's nothing new. Bringing our reality into prayer. 40 minutes into this and I'm still waiting for a helpful point. Prayer is the space where I stand in the presence of God ... and that accomplishes what? The other half of prayer is the rest of your life ... sure, ok. We need a certain godly attitude with God. Ok, fine. For anyone listening to this kind of talk, that can be generally inferred. What? Going to church, praying the divine office and the rosary doesn't tell you anything about someone's prayer? Whoa, partner! Do you mean that someone making a fair effort to pray like that wouldn't be indicative of someone's prayer? Alright, that might put the few people who attend church in question with you. Tough evaluator. Ok, it's about the type of person you are .... So, as you hypothesise, there's a man who loves his wife and then at work is attracted to females. Maybe he is still struggling to gain custody of his eyes. Maybe the women at work are showing off their software and enticing him into honeytraps. Maybe both such men and women are attending church and praying the rosary and are simply struggling to integrate their natural instincts with a life of virtue; and yet you say that their efforts to pray at church doesn't reflect their efforts to advance spiritually and morally? Would the same then not also apply to you who, as a mortal, perhaps gravitates occasionally into some inadvertent fault of omission? While being at mass and praying the rosary etc. doesn't mean that one's a saint and may even be enslaved to some vice, it doesn't mean that there isn't sincere and genuine motivations to pray in a bona fide way. Can't agree with you there, mate. Many people that you have met don't pray, but are godly. That doesn't quite square with the many commands of God to pray. So, they have good attitudes about life. I have met atheists who also have good attitudes about life despite their atheism. Quite obviously, the person who prays brings himself into the prayer unless he has some form of split-mindedness. 47 minutes later: Make the sign of the cross. Halleluiah! We've arrived at the first baby step of prayer. Then, examine your life, Don't leave behind the things in your life behind you when you pray? Otherwise there will be some "disjuncture"? Nope, can't agree with that. Just because I focus on prayer and leave the parts of my life where they are actually disposes me to unite more closely with God in prayer. 50 minutes: a good point: leave your worries to God Who will take care of it better than anyone else. Perhaps this is a new point for some people. You can't help but worry ... not really. That seems to be a disjuncture with what you said in the preceding point. Anyways, if you have faith in God, He will absorb all worries. The fruit of the Spirit is peace. After all, if the soul is eternal and doesn't die and if that family member has received absolution, then there's nothing to worry about. As regards the corresponding grief, there should be some rejoicing that another soul would go to Heaven, even if through Purgatory first. Also, the one grieving will be hopefully joining that relative to pre-deceases him. If one tries to get rid of his burden, he won't find God? Many burdens are sins. Ridding one's life of such sins will actually bring one closer to God Who enables one to rid himself of vices. Regarding the assertion about dying with a major fault such as jealousy, can't agree there either. Personally, I used to be completely unforgiving, but now I forgive easily and abundantly. I don't anticipate dying as an unforgiving person. If Jesus could raise Lazarus who was dead, could He not heal a soul of its vice? Jesus freed me completely of many other vices, because in Christ there is freedom, but without uncircumscribed faith, that won't be so possible. I'm not saying that all vices would be necessarily removed before death, but I wouldn't assume that one would necessarily die with them. Good for me? Yes, it is and hopefully for others whose faith isn't alloyed with human-based doubt about God's power to purify and strengthen one's soul. 56 minutes: being jealous doesn't stop one from being with God. Ok. What about the man in your hypothetical example above who has lust for women at work who may or may not themselves have provoked him. Could he not learn to live with his lust and find Christ within that inclination even as you suggest with jealousy? Unless Christ would be limited in this regard. 58 minutes: When examining one's conscience, don't ask how did I sin, but how did I fail to love. Sin is the failure to love. So, why omit this deliberately? Then again, don't ask how did you sin, because then you'll focus on things you've done wrong. What's wrong with that unless one doesn't like the truth of his sins? Wow! That's a different and non-traditional approach to examining one's conscience. So much time for so little benefits and questionable points. Perhaps there are some in the next 70 minutes, but the first half was a lot of hay and few needles.
Hi Bishop Greg.
This is the 3rd time I've watched this video.
I am forgetful and need to keep coming back to this video.
The best part is each time I revisit this sight it puts me back to the path that I have learnt to take, that which I gone away from.
I don't know if it makes sense but I think I need to keep coming back and keep learning.
Thank you, Bishop Greg and Gerry.
Praised be Jesus Christ!
👍🏻🤗
Thank YOu Lord for life and all blessings. Thank you dear Bishop Greg for this talk on prayers, I always find new insights into different aspects of my being catholic every time I listen to you.
Thanks be to God
Happy to have watched this retreat.
Learning much and also realise I have learnt differently before.
Thank you, Bishop Greg 👍🏼
Thank you Bishop Greg an inspiration and insightful way to teach us how to pray. I never felt so assured that God loves me with all my faults and imperfections I learned that I deserve His love earned the love but admitting that and leaving with it. you removed the guilt and place an abundant way to love and being loved by Our Lord, Our Saviour ❤️🙏
A Place, A Space .. prayer! Thank you Bishop.
Awareness of His Omnipresence intensified. Thank you with all my heart ❤️🙏🏼
How i wish all peoples will watch this.Thank you Bishop...there is so much confusion in the world and people are misled by so many fake directions.
Very good teaching. Thanks Bishop Greg
Thank you for this, Bishop Greg is a very inspiring speaker. The focus of the video shifts too much... it gets dizzy :). Focus on the Speaker would be better really. Thank you.
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Very inspirational of his teaching..
Such a profound but simple way to pray
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I really enjoy most of what he says but certain things he says is viewed too objectively. Or purely from his own personal experiences
May the good Lord bless you for your good intentions, but no praying in the car? Can't agree with that. Pray without ceasing. Praying the rosary while driving is fine without endangering others even as one can walk and chew gum at the same time, or more commonly have a conversation with others in one's car or listen to the radio. True, praying in church or some quiet place is preferable, but people must use the time and occasions that life grants.
Looking into Jesus' eyes etc. ... this is fine, but for most common people we simply pray at simpler levels, but this must be for the elite level of pray-ers.
Suggestion: instead of spending so much time talking around points, but simply make them. It seems there's lots of peripheral comments that are really inessential. Anyways, perhaps some people like extra chatting. I had to use the forward arrows to skip ahead through the trivial parts at five seconds per arrow-click.
Nice candles but repetitive the window shots became quite boring and distracting, fyi.
Wow, after 25 minutes I'm still waiting to hear a substantial point about prayer. This talk goes in all sorts of directions without coming to a point yet.
There is too much useless talk about distractions, thoughts, feelings, etc. All one does to pray is ... (wait for it) ... pray. So there are distractions. Keep praying. That's it. This is like teaching someone to ride a bike without pedaling a single revolution.
My space ... my space ... my space ... useless. Just pray.
Sorry to say, but this sounds like a presentation given to a retirees at a retirement home. Perhaps I'm too young for this talk.
God is our Father - yes, got that a long time ago. Thanks.
We want a relationship with God in prayer ... sure, fine. got it already. It's nothing new.
Bringing our reality into prayer.
40 minutes into this and I'm still waiting for a helpful point.
Prayer is the space where I stand in the presence of God ... and that accomplishes what?
The other half of prayer is the rest of your life ... sure, ok.
We need a certain godly attitude with God. Ok, fine. For anyone listening to this kind of talk, that can be generally inferred.
What? Going to church, praying the divine office and the rosary doesn't tell you anything about someone's prayer? Whoa, partner! Do you mean that someone making a fair effort to pray like that wouldn't be indicative of someone's prayer? Alright, that might put the few people who attend church in question with you. Tough evaluator.
Ok, it's about the type of person you are .... So, as you hypothesise, there's a man who loves his wife and then at work is attracted to females. Maybe he is still struggling to gain custody of his eyes. Maybe the women at work are showing off their software and enticing him into honeytraps. Maybe both such men and women are attending church and praying the rosary and are simply struggling to integrate their natural instincts with a life of virtue; and yet you say that their efforts to pray at church doesn't reflect their efforts to advance spiritually and morally?
Would the same then not also apply to you who, as a mortal, perhaps gravitates occasionally into some inadvertent fault of omission? While being at mass and praying the rosary etc. doesn't mean that one's a saint and may even be enslaved to some vice, it doesn't mean that there isn't sincere and genuine motivations to pray in a bona fide way. Can't agree with you there, mate.
Many people that you have met don't pray, but are godly. That doesn't quite square with the many commands of God to pray. So, they have good attitudes about life. I have met atheists who also have good attitudes about life despite their atheism.
Quite obviously, the person who prays brings himself into the prayer unless he has some form of split-mindedness.
47 minutes later: Make the sign of the cross. Halleluiah! We've arrived at the first baby step of prayer.
Then, examine your life,
Don't leave behind the things in your life behind you when you pray? Otherwise there will be some "disjuncture"? Nope, can't agree with that. Just because I focus on prayer and leave the parts of my life where they are actually disposes me to unite more closely with God in prayer.
50 minutes: a good point: leave your worries to God Who will take care of it better than anyone else. Perhaps this is a new point for some people.
You can't help but worry ... not really. That seems to be a disjuncture with what you said in the preceding point. Anyways, if you have faith in God, He will absorb all worries. The fruit of the Spirit is peace. After all, if the soul is eternal and doesn't die and if that family member has received absolution, then there's nothing to worry about. As regards the corresponding grief, there should be some rejoicing that another soul would go to Heaven, even if through Purgatory first. Also, the one grieving will be hopefully joining that relative to pre-deceases him.
If one tries to get rid of his burden, he won't find God? Many burdens are sins. Ridding one's life of such sins will actually bring one closer to God Who enables one to rid himself of vices.
Regarding the assertion about dying with a major fault such as jealousy, can't agree there either. Personally, I used to be completely unforgiving, but now I forgive easily and abundantly. I don't anticipate dying as an unforgiving person. If Jesus could raise Lazarus who was dead, could He not heal a soul of its vice? Jesus freed me completely of many other vices, because in Christ there is freedom, but without uncircumscribed faith, that won't be so possible. I'm not saying that all vices would be necessarily removed before death, but I wouldn't assume that one would necessarily die with them. Good for me? Yes, it is and hopefully for others whose faith isn't alloyed with human-based doubt about God's power to purify and strengthen one's soul.
56 minutes: being jealous doesn't stop one from being with God. Ok. What about the man in your hypothetical example above who has lust for women at work who may or may not themselves have provoked him. Could he not learn to live with his lust and find Christ within that inclination even as you suggest with jealousy? Unless Christ would be limited in this regard.
58 minutes: When examining one's conscience, don't ask how did I sin, but how did I fail to love. Sin is the failure to love. So, why omit this deliberately? Then again, don't ask how did you sin, because then you'll focus on things you've done wrong. What's wrong with that unless one doesn't like the truth of his sins? Wow! That's a different and non-traditional approach to examining one's conscience.
So much time for so little benefits and questionable points. Perhaps there are some in the next 70 minutes, but the first half was a lot of hay and few needles.