I Love Being Catholic. Here's Why.
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- If you're truly open-minded, you can find some truth in most religions. You can find plenty of goodness and beauty as well. But where is the whole truth of God-the "fullness of truth"?
Fr. Mike makes the case for Catholic Christianity, and why you should settle for nothing less.
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Best reason to be Catholic: the Eucharist.
Yeah, also confession. Because of what Christ did, no matter what sin you have done, the confession will always end the same, "I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"
Jesus saves not eucharist.
@@Theunspokentruth77 Read Jn 6. Unless you eat his flesh and drink his blood you have no life in you.
@@matthewschmidt5069 who is the bread of life?
@@Theunspokentruth77 Jesus.
Former Southern Baptist here. Absolutely love being Catholic!
Praise God! There was a period in my life I wanted to become baptist but decided against it due to the lack of standardizarion in baptist denominations.
At least you made an informed choice. Fa Mike just happen to be a Roman Catholic because his family wad Roman Catholic. If they'd been Buddhist, Methodist or Blues singers, you'd have said the same about them.
And just on a matter of probability, you'd be more likely to find Truth by changing Faith, to any Faith. As you did.
Praise be
Same! 15 years since my confirmation, no regrets.
Welcome home!
Despite the "discrimination" I receive from non-Catholic Christians, family members included, I am so very grateful and happy to be a Catholic. Knowing what I know, I would be lost without Adoration and the Eucharist. Thank you Father Mike! 🙏🏻✝️💪
In this world you will be ridiculed and hated because of Christ 😢
Me too, I am so grateful, I wish more Protestants would listen carefully and do their research and they will find that we really are all one under Jesus Christ our Savior ❤❤❤
@@kimberlysmiley5071 Amen! 🙏🏻✝️
There’s NO such thing as non catholic Christian’s because there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS. You have the Baptist CULT. The Bible a Catholic book condemns protestantism and orthodoxy.
@@kimberlysmiley5071no we are not one. You have the holy Catholic Church. You have 48,000 protestant CULTS. The Bible a Catholic book condemns protestantism and orthodoxy. Only Jesus can found a Church NOT man.
I grew up Catholic . Went to Catholic school. I was very active through my teens and twenties. Then I drifted away a bit. I found Fr. Mike’s videos on you tube and downloaded the Ascension app. I started reading the Bible in a year. I went to confession and started going back to church. The priest was very kind and said welcome back.
Praise be to God!
Hallelujah!
First converted to 'mere Christianity' from Judaism. Then became Catholic, the fullness of God's Truth for humankind. So you might say I'm a born again Catholic Jew. 😄
Awesome! 😂 ❤
Beautiful!!!!! Welcome home!❤❤❤
Wonderful
Catholicism is the ORIGINAL CHRISTIAN faith✝️🙏🏼💕💕💕 I’m a cradle to grave Catholic and love being Catholic 🥰
Amen
The Lord bless you and keep you, sister. As a Protestant, I am thankful for my Catholic brothers and sisters.
@@KevvoLightswift if only more of our Protestant brothers and sisters thought the same way you do. We all love the Lord!!! 😍😍😍😍😍
@@kimberlysmiley5071 Amen, sister. :) I am always blessed by Fr Mike Schmitz' wisdom and humble heart.
Eastern Orthodox actually the original Christian faith.
I converted last year (24.6.2023) from Protestantism to Catholicism. Haven‘t regretted a single second! It feels natural and as if I have finally come home. Am now 52 years old and love being part of the Catholic Church, love the Pope and having a small but visible influence on my (Protestant) husband and four children. I pray for their conversion, too, in the future. ❤ Father Mike and Bishop Barron were a great factor in my conversion. The Catholic Church (even in Germany) is alive and vibrant. Happy Feast of Corpus Christi!
I came into the church in 2019 and I have never had this much peace. I love being Catholic! The Eucharist has changed my life.
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I also came to the Church in 2019. Christ the King Sunday 2019.
just experienced my first face to face confession. wow! now i understand that you will release that built up conscience of doing a terrible sin: that someone is there to listen to you in a non judgemental manner, PLUS the blessing to forgive those sins. Now I understand that the sacrament of confession is a gift from God.
I'm in tears, you put this so well. After growing up Baptist and Evangelical, this is exactly what becoming Catholic was like. I finally have what most Christians through history have had: the entire Bible, Christian tradition, and the sacraments. 15 years since entering the Church and every single day I'm grateful to be Catholic.
I've asked above, but I'll ask again here, sister. What was your conversion story like? Do you have peace even though you reject Unconditional eternal security and have exchanged it for conditional security?
I'm not seeking to argue, only to understand. :)
@@KevvoLightswift
The unconditional security comes from Jesus’s promise; it becomes conditional only when a follower starts straying. It’s THE FOLLOWER alone who introduces the conditional aspect.
Christ forged the New Covenant for us, and a covenant can be violated, but never dissolved. This happens when one party of the covenant breaks their promise. Take a wild guess who breaks the New Covenant (hint: it’s not Jesus).
Saint Paul explicitly states that we CAN lose our salvation, not due to Jesus reneging on his word (because he will not ever do that), but by US reneging on our word.
Welcome home Sarah. We are blessed to have you. 🙏💪❤️
Former Non Denominational Christian Here. Grateful to have become Catholic
Listening to you read the Bible in a year made me runnnn to the Catholic Church and I just got confirmed on Pentecost. Will be convalidating my civil marriage also! Thank you Father Mike!
Congratulations!
Beautiful!
Been Catholic for one year at Easter. I thirsted for more... for fullness of truth. I listened to a priest in RCIA and I felt... Lord, here are the words of life! Where else shall I go?
There were beautiful things about my old Anabaptist church... but I thirsted. Confession, Absolution, Eucharist, authority from Christ, deep teaching, love for my Lord Jesus pictured in the crucifix and the Divine Mercy Image and the Sacred Heart... What beautiful love! Jesus is becoming more and more and more beautiful to me. The Catholic Church is becoming more and more and more beautiful to me. My heart is drawn deeper! Thank You merciful God! Make my heart and my love more like You!
Welcome home! God bless you!
Welcome home!
Former baptist here ❤
This is why I became Catholic. I'd been a Christian all my life, but I didn't have the fullness of the good, the true, and the beautiful that God has given us until I was received into the Catholic Church. How incredible to discover that God had more sacraments, more Scripture, and more joy to give me that I ever knew before.
I’m a former Charismatic, non denominational christian. I’m now Catholic. I absolutely love being Catholic. It is indeed the fullness of truth! I have fallen in love with the Eucharist!
I was able to be part of the Catholic Charismatic movement in California. I am now in Utah and Catholics area small minority so I am not able to here, but it was a wonderful experience and many of the teens in my Confirmation classes had moving experiences.
Cradle Catholic here and I’m barely starting to fall in love with the Eucharist. Sometime us Catholics downplay or take for granted “our inheritance”. I’ve been inspired and converted by Catholicism thanks to former Protestant brothers and sisters.
Fr Mike, thank you for leading me back to Jesus. I was away from church and far away from God. You brought His love near through your weekly sermons. I never thought that I will return to church and Eucharist , but I did. The opportunity to receive Jesus through the Eucharist is amazing. God bless you.
I,m chatolic from Denpasar Bali Indonesia ❤️ God bless for father🙏
Amen Father Mike 🙏✝️ I just finished RCIA and was Confirmed this past Easter and the Eucharist is without question the greatest gift that I could ever receive 🙌
Praise God!
Thank you Fr. Mike. You were one of the first Catholic UA-camrs I started watching about two years ago. I come from 50+ years as a Protestant and I am now two weeks away from my confirmation! Thanks for your contribution in leading me home. P.S. Catechism in a year podcast is awesome!
Wow, thank you for sharing! Welcome home!
Welcome home🎉
Praise God!
I have a question. If all denominations worship Jesus does it matter if you’re catholic or not? I’m ex catholic and follow no denomination, but I worship Jesus and accept Him as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Converted in 2011. I love being Catholic ❤
Fr. Mike, thank you! I love being a Catholic, too. It's truly the best. Once you find "the Truth" nothing else satisfies.
I’m a convert (with my husband and son) and completely agree! 💯😊
@@wiiildfire Yes, being a Catholic is like being forever in love, falling in love, staying in love, growing in love... like a spreading roaring wildfire 🔥😉love your handle 😇🔥💙
@@SurrenderNovenaYes!!!!!
@@kimberlysmiley5071 ❤💕💙
Really great message as someone who grew up at a Protestant school. The revelation of the fullness of truth through the Catholic Church has opened my eyes and given me peace I can’t describe. Thank you Jesus and thank you father Mike for a great message
I love being Catholic !!! The Eucharist is really Jesus my Lord! ❤❤ ❤
2 Timothy 4 KJV 👑
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
🎺⛅️1 Thessalonians 4 KJV ✝️🩸
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 John 1 KJV 🩸
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
We are blessed to have Catholic priests like Fr Mike to administer the sacraments. Pray fervently for our priests and our Catholic Church.
Last night I had my third RCIA meeting. Ive been attending mass most Sundays as a 'not really but maybe kinda Christian' for about a year. The things that strike me most when I go to church or attend RCIA is the complete peace and certainty that Im in the right place, doing the right thing. Incidentally, it was Father Mike's UA-cam clips that convinced me to attend mass in the first place. Ascension Presents is REALLY doing Gods Work, and Im eternally grateful.
Welcome. I’m a convert. I had my first communion at Easter 2022. I have never known such peace and joy. I am fortunate to have the time and a place to worship at daily Mass and receive Him almost every day. It is beyond amazing….it is miraculous! Keep coming to RCIA and to. Mass. Jesus is calling you closer to Him.
My RCIA doesn't start until September, it is a painful wait but it will be worth it.
God bless. ❤
Just wanted to encourage you all, watching Fr. Mike convinced me to get in touch with a local parish last year. I am now a fully baptized Catholic as of this past Easter. It is worth it and I should’ve done this sooner. Glory to Jesus Christ ✝️
"You don't have to figure it out on your own" That a major thing that didn't feel right in protestantism.
Im a proud Roman Catholic from Jakarta Indonesia ❤️❤️❤️🌈🌈🌈
I grew up Methodist. I converted to Catholic in 1992 and was in good standing for 23 yrs. I fell away from the church for various reasons. Last year I found Fr. Mike on UA-cam..his videos put the reasons I left the church into a different light for me. I was thinking with my Protestant head rather than my Catholic heart. Now I am doing the Bible in a year and working my way back to the church, thanks to Fr. Mike.
Awesome to be Catholic!
A faith that brings this beauty and virtues can be nothing but the true faith. I used to be Atheist. 3 years ago I converted and 2 years ago baptized.
Now God is calling me to marriage with a beautiful woman. I never thought God would grant me this blessing. I found true hapiness and my vocation in Catholicism thats why.
Hello Fr, proudly catholic
Blessed to be Catholic ❤️🔥🕊️
So am I.... I love my faith. My God ,Jesus, his Mother Mary and ours ❤
Thank you Fr. Mike
This video motivated me to e-mail the pastor of my local parish about my interest in Catholicism. I've been on the fence, but Fr. Schmitz's words really pushed my motivation over the edge. Thank you, and please pray for me.
Prayers
Praise God for your choice to act! I will be praying for you
Thanks be to God i am catholic! I am a faithful catholic and i don’t fear anything or anybody. Praise God and his church! 🙏🙏
Happy Corpus Christi, Father Mike, the Eucharist is the source of Christian Life!❤
Since I opened my eyes to this World I have being in God Hands 🙌 , and the Strength of my Catholic Faith is The Best Heritage from my Parents in Heaven (God, Glorious Virgen Mary, and St. Joseph), and my Parents here. I cant no be more grateful, proud, and Happy. Brothers and Sisters lets be joy and be glad.
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Wow. Thank you. I think the Lord spoke to me through your video. I believe it. I have been a Christian with 66 books but have studied the history of the church. I believe it.
I used to think you were so annoying... but every time I hear you talk, I hear consistent truth and realize it doesn't matter. Now, I find your voice enormously relatable, and listen daily because the message is true and sincere. Thanks for sharing. Even in your calling that generosity of spirit should not be undervalued. Thanks again.
I was Raised as Catholic, I still Am Catholic 41 yrs and I thank GOD for Everything. I also Pray that My Lil Town gets better from the Tornado that came through. GOD Bless You ALL ☝️💯💯🙏💯✌️💯
I live being Catholic ♥.
Praise God
Amen Father! I also wanted to thank you as well for guiding me back to the church. As well as your guide for confession is very helpful.
I’m so glad for the Bible in a year podcast. I started it a few weeks ago and ended up buying the Great Adventure Bible so I could follow along more easily.
Father!! You’re amazing!!
Thank you for your knowledge goodness compassion and holiness.
You’ve made it so much easier to understand and appreciate our faith ✝️🙏🏻🌹
Amen Father.
i love being a Catholic Christian. and you played a big part on my journey Father Mike. God bless! 🙏✝️
I love being Catholic so much! What a gift!! Deo gratias 💙
Wonderful message, perhaps especially for former secular fools like me.
Well said. And what an incredible blessing & legacy to return all the generations that come after you back to the church Jesus started - the Catholic Church.
It is a blessing to have the fullness of truth. Let’s all claim our inheritance.There’s so much joy!!! Praise God! 🙏❤
Another beautiful explanation; thank you, father Mike!
God bless you father Mike🙏our catholic church is in need of priests like you that spread the message of Christ to our poor humanity Amen🕯🕯🕯🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Father for leading me home ❤
I'm very thankful for being Catholic. In Spain most of the people of my age have left his catholic faith aside. The Lord has protected me and I can't say anything but thanks God. Thanks to the Father and to Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit.
I know well that I don't deserve it, but going to mass and "understand" what God is doing on the altar... wow!
And eating the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ... wow!
And being forgiven of my hard heart... thanks a lot!
Everything is amazing even though I don't always realise.
If I hadn't had all these gifts, what would be of my life?
Praise God! Amen 🙏 Thank 😇
Is God flesh or spirit? If He is a spirit does a spirit have flesh and blood? And where does it ever say in the Bible to consecrate bread and wine into flesh and blood? The Bible says to not consume blood.
@@nathanmarcus2447after the incarnation, the Son of God is also human, flesh, blood and soul. His name is Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
It is said in the gospels. And it was Jesus who spoke several times about eating him.
Perhaps your Bible is different from mine. Who knows which one is the true one? Then it comes on stage Cefas, Petrus, the stone and the Apostles and their successors.
Assisted by the Holy Spirit, they know which books are true.
You accept the whole or nothing. Any intermediate decision is good but it is not the whole truth.
Love you Fr. Mike! ❤❤❤ Thank you!
Absolutely amazing to have been led by my Lord, our Jesus! to the fullness😃💙🌹
Thank you ❤
Id love to listen to a talk about those 7 chapters.
7 Books, Go to the Council of Carthage
Check out The Bible in a Year podcast. They are there, in-depth.
Me, too and it's so awesome and so loved! In the Philippines, it's now Corpus Christi! I'm so happy! Yay! Thank you for your Hallow App! I'm happy for my Holy Rosary!
Thank you so much for this video Fr. Mike. Lately I have been struggling in this aspect of my faith journey. At my parish I have been trying to establish a Young Adult Ministry because I feel my heart longing for friendship with fellow Catholics. It has been a difficult journey and it has been discouraging at times. I see my friends who attend protestant churches and often feel sadness about not being able to fully relate in our faith. I love the Catholic Church and I ask you to pray for the Ministry to grow.
You said it all, proud catholic
i treasure my catholic faith, authentic to history and the wonderful sacriments of and from the originations of christianity.
I had treatment a few months a go.. I asked the hosbital for " chaple prayer" a catholic priest showed up we did communion... after I received communion, many people wanted prayer and communion too! I'm so glad I asked it for myself because I had other catholic wanted communion and prayer as well!... just speak up.. God will answer
Great video father Mike, hope you're doing well. God bless
AMEN!! Father Mike 🙏
my most precious gifts are my son and my religion. I love being catholic!
God bless you, Fr. Mike. I'm so glad I found you 2 months ago. I found a wonderful church the day after I found you. Thank you. 🙏 🇺🇸
I was just saying this… and your video comes up Thank you God for sending me confirmation 🙏🏼 I love my Faith ❤️
Thank you for the 365 Days of the Catechism in a Year podcast!
So be it, Greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
The best answer I get years ago from a best friend now a priest when I questioned the Catholic faith!
Thank you Fr Mike!
Thank you, Father Mike!!!!
Dear Father Mike,
Thank you for your inspiring reflection on the beauty of being a Catholic Christian. Your message of inclusivity and invitation resonates deeply with me. It's refreshing to hear someone speak about the richness of truth and goodness present in various faith traditions while also affirming the unique gifts and inheritance within Catholicism.
Your reminder that all Christians, regardless of denomination, share in the inheritance of the fullness of truth and the sacraments is powerful. It's a call to unity and understanding among believers, encouraging us to explore and embrace the richness of our faith.
I appreciate your gentle invitation for those who may not be Catholic to explore the depth of their spiritual inheritance and consider the beauty of Catholicism. Your message embodies the essence of Christian love and openness, inviting all to journey together in faith.
Thank you for your wisdom, guidance, and dedication to spreading God's love. May your words continue to inspire and uplift many souls on their spiritual journey.
Daily thankful to have been given this grace to believe!!❤🙏➕️ God bless you all my sisters & brothers!!!
I love how you explain everything Padre. God bless you and the team.
Amazing. Jesus I trust in you
I do wish orthodoxy was mentioned, reguardless it’s a lovely video. Love the channel, God bless you
I received the Eucharist 30 years ago and literally opened my arteries. Felt the present of God coming to me. Don’t miss out on this beautiful and sacred gift.
I've often pondered about how if I wasn't Catholic, I'd be an atheist - nothing else makes sense, nothing else has as much Truth as can be known by humans. I'm so grateful I'm in the One True Church!
Thanks, Fr Mike, for a beautiful affirmation of our faith. Amen, God Bless. Claire.
Amen Fr. Mike and God bless
The best thing that has ever happened to me. It’s hard to articulate how endlessly fulfilling, beautiful, fascinating, profound, transformative it is to be Catholic
God bless you Father Mike. You are a blessing. May Our blessed Mother Mary cover you in her protective mantle and watch over you. I LOVE BEING CATHOLIC 🙏🥰🌻🌻🌻🌻💗💗🌸🌸🌸🙏🙏🙏
Father, I’ve been Catholic even before I was born. I’ve never heard our inheritance described so beautifully.
Great explanation, Father Mike! Thank you. I am a lifetime Catholic, it's all I know and all I care to know. I ask God to help me increase my faith and help me become a better person.
I started praying the rosary and there is nothing like it. I feel so much peace. I'm still a bit uncertain since I've been protestant most of my adult life but I can't deny what I'm feeling. I love how the Catholics focus on Jesus' death on the cross among other things. Pray for me 🙏
Thank you Father for your way of simply explaining my Catholic faith. This will help me to explain it to others. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
God bless you for doing these father❤
Call him for what he is..a priest lol
Amen Father Mike. I too love being Catholic. Our churches here in South Africa are mostly full. But have to keep praying for protection and those souls who have moved away from out Lord and Saviour 🙏➕🙌
Some good role modeling, today.
One of the best examples of how to avoid arguments.
People need Jesus. It’s like knowing your family’s secret: where the best blackberry bushes are. You can argue with others over which is best, or just show people where to get the best berries. Share what you love.
I love this video. I felt like a lot was missing when I was still Protestant, like the sacraments - as well as how much of the Bible can guide/point one to Christ’s church - and I do feel like the fullness of the truth is in the Catholic Church, just as Fr. Mike describes here. I’m so grateful for Ascension Presents and for the local parish that accepted me for OCIA back when I wasn’t yet Catholic. Thank you so much Fr. Mike for speaking about the truth.
Literally the best intro to this video EVER hahaha 😂
This is ABSOLUTE GOLD, Father Mike. God Bless you more.
Very informative. Thank you. Amen 🙏
The amount of People that have told Me The Devil, dose not exist. Is so very SAD. I have been told this to My Face so many times😭
Gorgeous message
Amen !!!!!!!!! 🙏
Becoming a Catholic is the best thing that has ever happened to me.