Thank you so, so much Father James Mawdsley. God bless you. Greetings to you all from The District Of Columbia famously known as Washington aka Washington, DC ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank God for all His faithful Priests 🙏
I’m discerning a 3rd order and have been praying the hours for about a month now. I love it. It ties your whole day and life into the liturgy. I don’t do every hour but I do the readings, laudes, vespers, and compline. Highly recommend! My day doesn’t feel complete anymore without it!
Good to know Father. The devil scares me. I stay in grace via confession. But the bonus is my Guardian Angel. I pray for her/him nightly. Always guiding me. Great topic.
Thank you, Father, for this very timely reminder of the weaknesses of satan and the power of our guardian angels when we ask for the help of our guardian angel. When I learned that a guardian angel belongs to one person and when the person dies, your guardian angel does not get reassigned to another person, it became very clear that they are a great gift from God! I appreciate all of your talks and await “if you Believed Moses 2.”
Five good points to always keep in mind. Point four is one I always struggle with and constantly have to remind myself that God allows evil to bring forth some good. Hard to comprehend at times. Thanks for bringing up the help we receive from our Guardian Angel. I've been neglecting him lately. Got to fix that. Happy 106th anniversary of the Miracle of Sun. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us. God bless. Stay strong.
Dear Fr Mawdsley, I am reading your New Old series books. You have given me such tremendous confidence and hope in God and in His church. May God bless your work 🙏🏻
Thank you Father, I appreciate your teaching so very much. God’ Bless you too Father, and, may The Holy Ghost continue to Guide and Protect you, Amen 🙏🏻 (From, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧)
About Compline - the beauty and love expressed in the chants cannot be resisted no matter how miserable or scared and alone one is. For that matter even being stupid and having a hard time keeping up, is not an obstacle as in other situations. Thank you for this beautiful talk, Fr. M. One day I hope you have time to give us a talk about Chant. ( Or is it even explainable in words?)
Thank you Father...thank you for extra information to know about the devil.please include us in your prayer Father..sometimes in my life temptation comes strong and too difficult.please include me in your prayers Father..God Bless you father.
Thank you Fr. JM for this great teachings about the Devil. I pray everyday to St. Michael and my Guardian Angel. Also to have Our home Bless by the Priest every year during Ephiphany. I love hearing this again so not to be afraid .
Fr. Mawdsley; Thank you for being a pillar of strength! You are a true Blessing to all those who believe, adore, trust, and love God. Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux.
Father.. The Lord led me to you. You give hope and clarity to my doubts about “ The Truth “.. so sad seeing what is happening in our Church. Thank you for your words.. May Our Lord Hold and Bless you always.✝️🙏🏻🌹
Right time when I wanted strength to fight my anxious feelings on some thoughts, I found this video. God takes care of his sheep and strengthens us during times of distress. Thank you Father for this video. A proof that God is continually speaking to us through the mouth of good and faithful priests.
Thank you father, wishing you a Blessed Christmas. You are in my daily Rosary. You are a blessing to us who want to follow our Catholic Tradition, may the Good Lord bless you abundantly.
Timely and needed. How did you know what we needed to hear before we asked? Hmmm. Satan may not know the future, but you’re onto something. Good on you, Fr. Mawdsley.
We hope to rest without fear, like lambs in the hand of Our Jesus! Thank you for the reminders, Father. We’ve started praying Prime and Compline, from your exhortation. Perhaps you could do a video about Sunday Vespers as well? Also Father, I hope you could pray for the conversion of my brothers Anthony and Aaron, at Holy Mass. Thank you and God bless, Father. We continue to pray for you as you work for the Good Shepherd. Ave Maria!
Fr Mawdsley, Wonderful informative spiritual information. I shared it on my FB to Our Lady of Good Success. So glad you have this UA-cam page . I wish you all the best. And in my thoughts and prayers🙏🙏🙏🌷😇
Father Mawdsley: Thanks so much for sharing this with us!! I was wondering what medals/sacramentals would you recommend for men? Also, could you please remember my Father when you offer Mass? He has a non malignant tumor in his chest and I hope and pray that the tumor will shrink dramatically, and/or disappear? Many thanks and God bless, and Mary keep you!!!
(For the below question, until Vatican II, the Divine Office was prayed integrally -- all the hours, every day, by every cleric, under pain of grave sin. That is how traddie priests pray the Office (including myself). The 'Liturgy of the Hours' (novus ordo) is something very different; Prime abolished, and two hours made optional, and all of them diluted.
Father, thanks so much for for this!!! I am eternally grateful and hope to purchase your books soon!! In Domino et Domina, Chris Bates Ithaca, New York USA
Thank you Father Mawdsley. I wish every parish priest would give this type of sermon at Holy Mass on Sunday. This is the kind of information Catholics need to know but don't. May God bless you and keep you safe.
On reading our thoughts....the most dangerous thing I have done in my life ( and there have been many) was to enter into psychoanalysis . I escaped almost 4 years ago through the grace of God alone .
On the point of Satan not knowing the future. I believe that Buddhism was his attempt to preempt the subvert the Gospel, which he knew it was coming but didn't have any direct knowledge of how, while Islam was his attempt to sabotage the Gospel after he knew what it entailed exactly. He's really cunning has a lot of knowledge and makes pretty good educated guesses, but in the end he doesn't really know anymore than anyone else about what will actually happen.
0:55 - - devil can’t see the future - - but he’s always taken off guard + surprised by the Saints who rescue the Church again + again through history through God’s Grace.
Thank you Father! I knew Satan could not read your mind, but just now considered, is this also why we must use words sparingly, and always for the glory of God. And also why Mary "pondered these things in her heart" never speaking them aloud? I've heard it said though, when you make the sign of the cross before and after any oral prayers to Heaven, that this binds your words from satan. I don't know where I heard it though, if it is true or not - can you confirm Catholic teaching? God bless you and your work. 3 Ave's for you.
I believe Compline is suppressed, I could be way wrong. But this explains why. God bless you Fr. Mawsley. May He uphold you and all of our good shepherds in the face of temptation and persecution. Blessed Mother please lead our priests, Saving Jesus guide Your Holy Church and protect all our poor and weak souls from the lies and darkness to come. Amen
Just for clarification: it was the hour of Prime that was abolished by Sacrosanctum concilium (Vaitcan II), not Compline. Plus SC made optional any 2 out of the 3 minor hours of Terce, Sext and None. Woeful. God bless you.
Thank you Father for another great educational and fortification videos. If you can do a video on a compline prayer. I researched online, but it for a little confusing. Thank you and God bless. Ave Maria!
Thanks Father Mawdsley for this timely reminder. Good to have these reminders. In all conflict its important to know the capability of ones enemy. So your transmission is very important
Thanks alot Father I have demons inside of me and after watching this video I started praying to my guardian angel and I started feeling way better the minute I started praying the guardian angel prayer.i feel really lucky running into this video
Great point about this current synod. The Holy Spirit is purifying His church. It may seem frightening to us while we see it happening, but God has the situation in hand. Keep your trust in Jesus, worship him in the sacraments and in your daily life, and let the Blessed Virgin Mary guide you to Him.
My house has been blessed only once. There aren't enough priests to perform an annual house blessing for everyone. I do actually pray compline from the traditional Catholic breviary every night. There is a group of sedevacantist priests who keep the pre-1955 breviary, available for a nominal subscription fee, on their website. I have a subscription to it and say compline in both Latin and English every night. I am not worried about satan. He deserves to be crushed. He has inspired great evil both in my life as a child and in my marriage as an adult. To say that I hate him is an understatement.
This a beautiful Faith Formation pearl of wisdom which I shall weave into my 8th graders lesson on the Final Four things. Comprehensive but compact, it is well articulated and thoughtful while thought provoking. In the current hysteria over synod shenanigans I, too, keep reminding myself of all the corrupt times of history where Saints have stepped in to steer the Church, sometimes despite the Captain. I also will not dignify the devil with a capital s. Bless you Father, I will subscribe. Sign me a 68 year old great grandma who adores Jesus in the Most Sacrament of the Altar
Thank you so much for your strong faith and your inspired 😢scholarship during these difficult times. I bought two copies of Adam’s Deep Sleep, and gave a copy to one of the priests at my FSSP church, who knows you. I plan to buy all your books eventually. The Lord bless and keep you.
Great video and very informative. I was wondering if there is an alternative to the post Vatican II Liturgy of the hours(divine office) The UCCB is almost finished with the second edition to be released in 2025. This new edition will probably be worse.
Also Fr. Mawdsley, I would respectfully suggest you read some of Fr. Ripperger’s books on Spiritual Warfare for an even greater clarity about what Satan may or may not know. If it’s true, his original purpose was to illuminate the intellect of Mary and he fell because of the knowledge he was given of her interior life pursuant to the role he was created to play and, so, saw just how much, greater she was than himself, then he will may very well have known about the incarnation before it occurred.
I am wary of too much 'knowledge' about angels, and especially demons (though I respect Fr Ripperger knows what he is talking about). Do you have any references for that idea of Lucifer's purpose? While it is OK to speculate, that sounds extravagant. I cannot think of any Church Fathers or scholastics who would give all those details. It might have come later in someone's devotions, but it does not make sense to me. In any case, here is a footnote from "Crushing satan's head", which I think outlines safe speculation which is not required dogma. "Whereas St Ambrose, St Anselm and St Thomas favoured the teaching that God became incarnate in order to redeem man from sin, Bl Duns Scotus took the position that God would have become incarnate whether or not man sinned. He taught that God’s very first decree in relation to Creation was the universal primacy of Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary, as Jesus’ Mother, is raised by the fullness of grace above all other creatures. All this is prior to sin or redemption. Followers of Scotus speculated that the specific realisation that a woman would be Queen of Angels provoked Lucifer to rebel. He might have willingly bowed to God made Man (though it is not sure he knew this profundity in God’s Plan), but he was not willing to serve a human creature, given humans were by nature lower than angels (cf. Ps 8:6). The devil’s refusal to freely subject himself to the Woman is made explicit in the works of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda and St Maximilian Kolbe."
Most common mistake people make is they overestimate their ability to resist temptation. This is like going to a bar and think you can resist drinking and a pretty woman who looks and smiles at you. You may succeed with much sweating but why be there to begin with? Life in this world is fulll of pits and traps set by God's enemy which is why we need God and stay close to him. The Devil is like a ferocious animal but chained. Step into his reach and you will get caught. Stay clear of him in Jesus name and you are safe, assuredly.
Temptation comes from the world, from the Devil and from our own broken nature which is inclined to sin (concupiscence). The Devil knows a lot about us as demons observe us to find weaknesses to exploit. It might feel your mind is being read but it's not true at all. If the Devil could read minds it would be easy for him to tempt everyone enough away from God.
Satan is Lucifer and the demons are the fallen angels. Is that correct? Do Satan and the demons roam the earth? Will Satan and the demons be cast into hell at the last battle? Will they occupy a separate place in hell from the damned souls? Satan won’t “rule” the damned souls. Is that correct?
I am not sure enough about these things to say much. But I am pretty sure you are right that satan will not "rule in hell" (a mistake by Milton). He will be despised there by every demon and human, in the deepest and darkest part of hell, I reckon utterly isolated (he will not even have the company of torturers to console him). I might be wrong.
I like listening to you, a lot of what you say is very insitfull, I would like to hear you give a talk on confession and how that differs from the penitentiary right of the mass, where we call to mind our sins and the priest gives a general absolution in preparation to celebrate the sacred mysteries, (recieving the lord in the blessed sacrament ), most priest say atheist confession once a month, but if there are no serious (mortal. Sin) sin, then in not the penitentiary rite of the mass sufficient. I look forward to hearing what you have to say. Thank you
Going to a priest to make sacramental Confession once each month is ideal (whether one has mortal sin on one's conscience or not). Jesus and Mary show us this with the First Friday and First Saturday devotions. If one has sinned mortally, one can go more often, as needed. If one has not sinned mortally, once a month is fine. For a religious or seminarian or priest, then every two weeks is ideal. To go more often than this (laity or clerics) is permissible but not always advisable. As you mention, the absolution in Holy Mass, especially when there is a second Confiteor prior to the distribution of Holy Communion (or at the beginning of Mass in the 1962 rites), is powerful in remitting all venial sins, according as one is contrite. In general, venial sins may be remitted by prayer, almsgiving and penances. Mortal sin requires going to Sacramental Confession. The advantage of going monthly to Confession even for venial sin only, is that by articulating our sins to a priest, we become more aware of what they are, because we should name them (although it is not strictly necessary for venial sins). And we get an idea of which sins persist. And we have a chance to receive advice from the priest. And the Sacrament is gives great graces. Hope this helps.
Are demons, tormented and eternally sentenced to endless pain? I do pray Vespers each evening (6:00 - 7:00) would I pray compline as I am getting into bed?
I don't think our Guardian Angel can read our mind. But they know us very well, better than any of our family or friends know us (they have been watching over us constantly). They 'hear' the prayers we address to them, and it may well be that they hear literally all of our prayers, spoken or unspoken, by God's arrangement. They communicate with us such inspirations as we might assume are 'intuition'. I mean, often do we know not where thoughts come from. Perhaps these are sometimes spoken to us by the angels. Obviously some people are more in tune than others, some more deaf than others. A few saints (like St Francesca of Rome) had clear apprehension of guardian angels. But most of us are not like this, perhaps because some people would get puffed up if they imagine their own ideas come from angels, and others would be despondent if they thought they were missing out. So God keeps it all very subtle, and that evidently works best.
Something I still have not understood. The demons can't know our thoughts. But if we were to pray silently to our guardian angels or to one of the three archangels0, how do our guardian angels or that archangel know our thoughts and carry our prayers to God. And how do our guardian angels know when we sin in thought? Is it because God allows our guardian angel this power on account of their office? Or did the demons lose this faculty when they fell?
Those are good questions, and I don't know the answer to them either. I am reminded, however, of Hebrews 12:22-24 which tells us that in Christ, we "have come to...innumerable numbers of angels." My guess would be that because of their office God gives them the power to hear our mental prayer.
When you invoke your angel, or a saint, (or heaven forbid, a demon) you grant them access by calling upon them. Now I suspect there is more to what your guardian angel has been given access to as well, but what precisely, I couldn't say.
Father, have you considered opening a channel in Spanish and using one of those AI to dub your videos into Spanish? My parents don't know other language than Spanish, and it would serve well your content getting out there in other languages.
I don't mind anyone copying / dubbing / posting the videos (though an attribution to this channel would be appreciated)... but I am at my limit of spending too much time at the computer. Sorry I cannot help.
This is the first time I have seen a Bible translation of Job 2:9 say , “ ….bless God and die.” I have only ever seen “ curse God and die. “ Isn’t this quiet a contradiction? What Bible version are you showing please?
This is from the Vulgate ("Benedic") and Douay-Rheims ("bless"). The LXX has "say any word to God" (εἰπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς κύριον). The Hebrew has "curse" (בָּרֵךְ ... minus the leftermost two dots). I forget the story behind the changes, but it is something to do with a reluctance to read out (or even write down) the words "Curse God". And so it was renedered as "bless", but 'everyone' was supposed to know what was meant by the context and general good teaching. Alas, the good teaching might be lacking! Corrections / further information etc very welcome from contributors here.
The traditional blessing for holy water (such as is used for the Asperges before a sung Sunday Mass) includes prayers of exorcism and blessing for both the salt and the water. Stronger prayers are used for Epiphany and Easter water. All three (obviously) are very good. I don't know what the novus prayers are.
Fr Mawdsley I’m so blessed to have the opportunity to hear your podcasts and learn so much of my catholic faith . Thankyou . Love from Mumbai India
Thank you so, so much Father James Mawdsley. God bless you. Greetings to you all from The District Of Columbia famously known as Washington aka Washington, DC ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank God for all His faithful Priests 🙏
I’m discerning a 3rd order and have been praying the hours for about a month now. I love it. It ties your whole day and life into the liturgy. I don’t do every hour but I do the readings, laudes, vespers, and compline. Highly recommend! My day doesn’t feel complete anymore without it!
Good to know Father. The devil scares me. I stay in grace via confession. But the bonus is my Guardian Angel. I pray for her/him nightly. Always guiding me. Great topic.
God bless you Fr. Mawdsley..
Thank you, Father, for this very timely reminder of the weaknesses of satan and the power of our guardian angels when we ask for the help of our guardian angel. When I learned that a guardian angel belongs to one person and when the person dies, your guardian angel does not get reassigned to another person, it became very clear that they are a great gift from God! I appreciate all of your talks and await “if you Believed Moses 2.”
Five good points to always keep in mind. Point four is one I always struggle with and constantly have to remind myself that God allows evil to bring forth some good. Hard to comprehend at times.
Thanks for bringing up the help we receive from our Guardian Angel. I've been neglecting him lately. Got to fix that. Happy 106th anniversary of the Miracle of Sun. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us. God bless. Stay strong.
Dear Fr Mawdsley, I am reading your New Old series books. You have given me such tremendous confidence and hope in God and in His church. May God bless your work 🙏🏻
Thank you dear Father!
So grateful to have found you Father Mawdsley! Prayers for God to Bless you abundantly.🙏
God bless you Father! Happy Fatima Day!
Thank you Father. That is nice to know. God bless you.
Thank you Father Mawdsley. When I see your videos, I try to stop what I'm doing and watch as much as I can.
Thank you Father, I appreciate your teaching so very much.
God’ Bless you too Father, and, may The Holy Ghost continue to Guide and Protect you, Amen 🙏🏻
(From, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧)
Just my thoughts exactly! May God protect dear Fr JM (from 🏴 Wales!)
About Compline - the beauty and love expressed in the chants cannot be resisted no matter how miserable or scared and alone one is. For that matter even being stupid and having a hard time keeping up, is not an obstacle as in other situations. Thank you for this beautiful talk, Fr. M. One day I hope you have time to give us a talk about Chant. ( Or is it even explainable in words?)
Than you for this! Perfect message for our time.
Our help is in the Name of the Lord! We have all the help we need.
Praise be Jesus Christ.
You are a gift to the Church, Fr. Mawdsley, I pray for you. Thank you and God bless!
Thank you Fr. Mawdsley, This is very encouraging!
Thank you Father from Tulsa.
Thank you Father...thank you for extra information to know about the devil.please include us in your prayer Father..sometimes in my life temptation comes strong and too difficult.please include me in your prayers Father..God Bless you father.
You are a blessing, dear Fr. Mawdsley, and you remain in my daily prayers. God bless you now & always. 🙏🏼❤️✝️❤️🙏🏼
Your blessing, Father!🙏💚💛🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷💛💚🙏
Thank you Fr. JM for this great teachings about the Devil. I pray everyday to St. Michael and my Guardian Angel. Also to have Our home Bless by the Priest every year during Ephiphany. I love hearing this again so not to be afraid .
Agreed 💯
great video, Father! thank you.
Thank you, Father!
Beautiful! Thank you Father!
Thank you Father, great, calming words of wisdom. God Bless you 🙏
Fr. Mawdsley; Thank you for being a pillar of strength! You are a true Blessing to all those who believe, adore, trust, and love God.
Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux.
I am wary about putting my thoughts and plans on paper. When I write on my journal, it's good and done--no plans, no rants.
Father.. The Lord led me to you. You give hope and clarity to my doubts about “ The Truth “.. so sad seeing what is happening in our Church. Thank you for your words.. May Our Lord Hold and Bless you always.✝️🙏🏻🌹
This needs to go viral 🙏🏻🙏🏻♥️♥️ Blessings to all 😇
Thank you Father,God bless you 🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
Thank you, Fr. 🙂🙏
Point #4, brings to mind St. Joseph in the OT, how he trusted everything meant for evil God meant for good.
Thankyou for this clarity, it all makes a coherent sense on so many levels, I will now watch more episodes and save this as an aide memoire.
Right time when I wanted strength to fight my anxious feelings on some thoughts, I found this video. God takes care of his sheep and strengthens us during times of distress. Thank you Father for this video. A proof that God is continually speaking to us through the mouth of good and faithful priests.
Thank you father, wishing you a Blessed Christmas. You are in my daily Rosary. You are a blessing to us who want to follow our Catholic Tradition, may the Good Lord bless you abundantly.
Timely and needed. How did you know what we needed to hear before we asked? Hmmm. Satan may not know the future, but you’re onto something. Good on you, Fr. Mawdsley.
Love this! Thank You!!
Thank you Father JM, may God 🙏 🙌 you and Holy Spirit enlighten you more to be able to help us under more .🎉🎉🎉❤😊
We hope to rest without fear, like lambs in the hand of Our Jesus! Thank you for the reminders, Father. We’ve started praying Prime and Compline, from your exhortation.
Perhaps you could do a video about Sunday Vespers as well?
Also Father, I hope you could pray for the conversion of my brothers Anthony and Aaron, at Holy Mass.
Thank you and God bless, Father. We continue to pray for you as you work for the Good Shepherd.
Ave Maria!
Father James! Danke für Deine geistlichen Impulse. Du fehlst uns so sehr! In Freundschaft und im Gebet verbunden, Deine Dennis und Victoria
Здорово получить от вас весточку. Надеюсь, у вас всё хорошо. Будьте крепкими. Im Gebet verbunden!
Thank you for the wonderful wisdom ❤ From Bristol 🙏
Fr Mawdsley, Wonderful informative spiritual information. I shared it on my FB to Our Lady of Good Success.
So glad you have this UA-cam page .
I wish you all the best. And in my thoughts and prayers🙏🙏🙏🌷😇
Father Mawdsley:
Thanks so much for sharing this with us!!
I was wondering what medals/sacramentals would you recommend for men? Also, could you please remember my Father when you offer Mass? He has a non malignant tumor in his chest and I hope and pray that the tumor will shrink dramatically, and/or disappear? Many thanks and God bless, and Mary keep you!!!
PS…. What version of the breviary do you pray & specific hours?
Can you tell me your father's first name and I will remember him at Mass.
(For the below question, until Vatican II, the Divine Office was prayed integrally -- all the hours, every day, by every cleric, under pain of grave sin. That is how traddie priests pray the Office (including myself). The 'Liturgy of the Hours' (novus ordo) is something very different; Prime abolished, and two hours made optional, and all of them diluted.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Paul Bates
Father, thanks so much for for this!!! I am eternally grateful and hope to purchase your books soon!!
In Domino et Domina,
Chris Bates Ithaca, New York USA
Fr Maudsley please pray for me a miserable sinner
How can one man be so based? Thank you, Father Based JM
Thank you. I pray everyday for the protection of our good priests
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Thank you Father Mawdsley. I wish every parish priest would give this type of sermon at Holy Mass on Sunday. This is the kind of information Catholics need to know but don't. May God bless you and keep you safe.
This is very encouraging. Thank you Father.
On reading our thoughts....the most dangerous thing I have done in my life ( and there have been many) was to enter into psychoanalysis . I escaped almost 4 years ago through the grace of God alone .
Thanks mate I really needed this Aussie Aussie Aussie oiy oiy oiy 🙏😜😉
On the point of Satan not knowing the future. I believe that Buddhism was his attempt to preempt the subvert the Gospel, which he knew it was coming but didn't have any direct knowledge of how, while Islam was his attempt to sabotage the Gospel after he knew what it entailed exactly. He's really cunning has a lot of knowledge and makes pretty good educated guesses, but in the end he doesn't really know anymore than anyone else about what will actually happen.
Thank you and God Bless yo Fr Mawdsly
0:55 - - devil can’t see the future - - but he’s always taken off guard + surprised by the Saints who rescue the Church again + again through history through God’s Grace.
Thank you Lord for priests like Fr Mawdsley
Thank you Father! I knew Satan could not read your mind, but just now considered, is this also why we must use words sparingly, and always for the glory of God. And also why Mary "pondered these things in her heart" never speaking them aloud? I've heard it said though, when you make the sign of the cross before and after any oral prayers to Heaven, that this binds your words from satan. I don't know where I heard it though, if it is true or not - can you confirm Catholic teaching? God bless you and your work. 3 Ave's for you.
Probably my favourite video so far.
I believe Compline is suppressed, I could be way wrong. But this explains why.
God bless you Fr. Mawsley. May He uphold you and all of our good shepherds in the face of temptation and persecution. Blessed Mother please lead our priests, Saving Jesus guide Your Holy Church and protect all our poor and weak souls from the lies and darkness to come.
Amen
Just for clarification: it was the hour of Prime that was abolished by Sacrosanctum concilium (Vaitcan II), not Compline.
Plus SC made optional any 2 out of the 3 minor hours of Terce, Sext and None.
Woeful.
God bless you.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM thank you for setting me correct.
Thank you Father for another great educational and fortification videos. If you can do a video on a compline prayer. I researched online, but it for a little confusing. Thank you and God bless. Ave Maria!
God bless you Father and keep teaching the truth
Thank you
Thank you Farther!
Thank you from New York.
Thank you Father for your wise and hopeful teaching! God bless you!!!
Thanks Father Mawdsley for this timely reminder. Good to have these reminders. In all conflict its important to know the capability of ones enemy. So your transmission is very important
Thank you Father, God bless your days
Thanks alot Father I have demons inside of me and after watching this video I started praying to my guardian angel and I started feeling way better the minute I started praying the guardian angel prayer.i feel really lucky running into this video
Keep praying and find a Traditional Catholic church - sayton hates Latin.
Are you sure you have demons inside you? That may be a lie from the Devil
Amen
Thank you Fr. Wishing you every blessing. From Ireland ☘️
Thank you Fr Mawdsley. God bless you.
Thank you for this Fr.
Brings hope to my broken heart.
God bless you
Great point about this current synod. The Holy Spirit is purifying His church. It may seem frightening to us while we see it happening, but God has the situation in hand. Keep your trust in Jesus, worship him in the sacraments and in your daily life, and let the Blessed Virgin Mary guide you to Him.
My house has been blessed only once. There aren't enough priests to perform an annual house blessing for everyone.
I do actually pray compline from the traditional Catholic breviary every night. There is a group of sedevacantist priests who keep the pre-1955 breviary, available for a nominal subscription fee, on their website. I have a subscription to it and say compline in both Latin and English every night.
I am not worried about satan. He deserves to be crushed. He has inspired great evil both in my life as a child and in my marriage as an adult. To say that I hate him is an understatement.
Thank you, Fr. Mawdsley.
This a beautiful Faith Formation pearl of wisdom which I shall weave into my 8th graders lesson on the Final Four things.
Comprehensive but compact, it is well articulated and thoughtful while thought provoking.
In the current hysteria over synod shenanigans I, too, keep reminding myself of all the corrupt times of history where Saints have stepped in to steer the Church, sometimes despite the Captain. I also will not dignify the devil with a capital s.
Bless you Father, I will subscribe.
Sign me a 68 year old great grandma who adores Jesus in the Most Sacrament of the Altar
Thank you so much for your strong faith and your inspired 😢scholarship during these difficult times. I bought two copies of Adam’s Deep Sleep, and gave a copy to one of the priests at my FSSP church, who knows you. I plan to buy all your books eventually. The Lord bless and keep you.
Great video and very informative. I was wondering if there is an alternative to the post Vatican II Liturgy of the hours(divine office) The UCCB is almost finished with the second edition to be released in 2025. This new edition will probably be worse.
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So good
What a great video
Satan can be anywhere, but NOT everywhere. He is not God. He is not the equal of Jesus. He is the Evil Equivalent of Saint Michael, the Archangel.
Also Fr. Mawdsley, I would respectfully suggest you read some of Fr. Ripperger’s books on Spiritual Warfare for an even greater clarity about what Satan may or may not know. If it’s true, his original purpose was to illuminate the intellect of Mary and he fell because of the knowledge he was given of her interior life pursuant to the role he was created to play and, so, saw just how much, greater she was than himself, then he will may very well have known about the incarnation before it occurred.
I am wary of too much 'knowledge' about angels, and especially demons (though I respect Fr Ripperger knows what he is talking about). Do you have any references for that idea of Lucifer's purpose? While it is OK to speculate, that sounds extravagant. I cannot think of any Church Fathers or scholastics who would give all those details. It might have come later in someone's devotions, but it does not make sense to me.
In any case, here is a footnote from "Crushing satan's head", which I think outlines safe speculation which is not required dogma.
"Whereas St Ambrose, St Anselm and St Thomas favoured the teaching that God became incarnate in order to redeem man from sin, Bl Duns Scotus took the position that God would have become incarnate whether or not man sinned. He taught that God’s very first decree in relation to Creation was the universal primacy of Jesus Christ. The Virgin Mary, as Jesus’ Mother, is raised by the fullness of grace above all other creatures. All this is prior to sin or redemption. Followers of Scotus speculated that the specific realisation that a woman would be Queen of Angels provoked Lucifer to rebel. He might have willingly bowed to God made Man (though it is not sure he knew this profundity in God’s Plan), but he was not willing to serve a human creature, given humans were by nature lower than angels (cf. Ps 8:6). The devil’s refusal to freely subject himself to the Woman is made explicit in the works of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda and St Maximilian Kolbe."
Job understood the assignment, as the kids say nowadays.
Most common mistake people make is they overestimate their ability to resist temptation. This is like going to a bar and think you can resist drinking and a pretty woman who looks and smiles at you.
You may succeed with much sweating but why be there to begin with?
Life in this world is fulll of pits and traps set by God's enemy which is why we need God and stay close to him.
The Devil is like a ferocious animal but chained. Step into his reach and you will get caught. Stay clear of him in Jesus name and you are safe, assuredly.
Father if the devil can't read our mind how is he so good at putting the wrong thoughts at the right time in our minds?
Temptation comes from the world, from the Devil and from our own broken nature which is inclined to sin (concupiscence). The Devil knows a lot about us as demons observe us to find weaknesses to exploit. It might feel your mind is being read but it's not true at all. If the Devil could read minds it would be easy for him to tempt everyone enough away from God.
He can see how you react to certain temptations.
Satan is Lucifer and the demons are the fallen angels. Is that correct? Do Satan and the demons roam the earth? Will Satan and the demons be cast into hell at the last battle? Will they occupy a separate place in hell from the damned souls? Satan won’t “rule” the damned souls. Is that correct?
Satan lost his name Lucifer when he rebelled against God. He is no longer known as Lucifer, only in regard to before his fall.
@@debbieramsey8933 Right. I was just stating that the one known as Satan is the former Lucifer.
I am not sure enough about these things to say much. But I am pretty sure you are right that satan will not "rule in hell" (a mistake by Milton). He will be despised there by every demon and human, in the deepest and darkest part of hell, I reckon utterly isolated (he will not even have the company of torturers to console him). I might be wrong.
@@ScriptureandTraditionFrJM Thank you. Not really a subject that is enjoyable to ponder.
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I like listening to you, a lot of what you say is very insitfull, I would like to hear you give a talk on confession and how that differs from the penitentiary right of the mass, where we call to mind our sins and the priest gives a general absolution in preparation to celebrate the sacred mysteries, (recieving the lord in the blessed sacrament ), most priest say atheist confession once a month, but if there are no serious (mortal. Sin) sin, then in not the penitentiary rite of the mass sufficient.
I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Thank you
Going to a priest to make sacramental Confession once each month is ideal (whether one has mortal sin on one's conscience or not). Jesus and Mary show us this with the First Friday and First Saturday devotions.
If one has sinned mortally, one can go more often, as needed. If one has not sinned mortally, once a month is fine. For a religious or seminarian or priest, then every two weeks is ideal. To go more often than this (laity or clerics) is permissible but not always advisable. As you mention, the absolution in Holy Mass, especially when there is a second Confiteor prior to the distribution of Holy Communion (or at the beginning of Mass in the 1962 rites), is powerful in remitting all venial sins, according as one is contrite.
In general, venial sins may be remitted by prayer, almsgiving and penances. Mortal sin requires going to Sacramental Confession.
The advantage of going monthly to Confession even for venial sin only, is that by articulating our sins to a priest, we become more aware of what they are, because we should name them (although it is not strictly necessary for venial sins). And we get an idea of which sins persist. And we have a chance to receive advice from the priest. And the Sacrament is gives great graces.
Hope this helps.
The devil cannot read your mind!
So, you have to tell him, out loud,
DEVIL!
GET LOST!!!
..in Jesus name of course!
Are demons, tormented and eternally sentenced to endless pain? I do pray Vespers each evening (6:00 - 7:00) would I pray compline as I am getting into bed?
The Devil cannot read our minds, but our Guardian Angel can, correct?
I don't think our Guardian Angel can read our mind. But they know us very well, better than any of our family or friends know us (they have been watching over us constantly). They 'hear' the prayers we address to them, and it may well be that they hear literally all of our prayers, spoken or unspoken, by God's arrangement. They communicate with us such inspirations as we might assume are 'intuition'. I mean, often do we know not where thoughts come from. Perhaps these are sometimes spoken to us by the angels. Obviously some people are more in tune than others, some more deaf than others. A few saints (like St Francesca of Rome) had clear apprehension of guardian angels. But most of us are not like this, perhaps because some people would get puffed up if they imagine their own ideas come from angels, and others would be despondent if they thought they were missing out. So God keeps it all very subtle, and that evidently works best.
God can allow them to read minds
Well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.
Something I still have not understood. The demons can't know our thoughts. But if we were to pray silently to our guardian angels or to one of the three archangels0, how do our guardian angels or that archangel know our thoughts and carry our prayers to God. And how do our guardian angels know when we sin in thought? Is it because God allows our guardian angel this power on account of their office? Or did the demons lose this faculty when they fell?
Those are good questions, and I don't know the answer to them either. I am reminded, however, of Hebrews 12:22-24 which tells us that in Christ, we "have come to...innumerable numbers of angels." My guess would be that because of their office God gives them the power to hear our mental prayer.
When you invoke your angel, or a saint, (or heaven forbid, a demon) you grant them access by calling upon them. Now I suspect there is more to what your guardian angel has been given access to as well, but what precisely, I couldn't say.
Father, have you considered opening a channel in Spanish and using one of those AI to dub your videos into Spanish? My parents don't know other language than Spanish, and it would serve well your content getting out there in other languages.
I don't mind anyone copying / dubbing / posting the videos (though an attribution to this channel would be appreciated)... but I am at my limit of spending too much time at the computer. Sorry I cannot help.
3:35 when you say “they belong to God”, do you mean that in the Baptismal reality, or as a creature of God?
I mean as a creature of God, so that includes all humans. Baptism brings us into His household as children of God.
This is the first time I have seen a Bible translation of Job 2:9 say , “ ….bless God and die.” I have only ever seen “ curse God and die. “
Isn’t this quiet a contradiction? What Bible version are you showing please?
This is from the Vulgate ("Benedic") and Douay-Rheims ("bless"). The LXX has "say any word to God" (εἰπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς κύριον). The Hebrew has "curse" (בָּרֵךְ ... minus the leftermost two dots). I forget the story behind the changes, but it is something to do with a reluctance to read out (or even write down) the words "Curse God". And so it was renedered as "bless", but 'everyone' was supposed to know what was meant by the context and general good teaching. Alas, the good teaching might be lacking!
Corrections / further information etc very welcome from contributors here.
Very interesting! Thank you so much. God bless 🙏
Father, is there such a thing as Exocism water vs Holy water?
The traditional blessing for holy water (such as is used for the Asperges before a sung Sunday Mass) includes prayers of exorcism and blessing for both the salt and the water. Stronger prayers are used for Epiphany and Easter water. All three (obviously) are very good.
I don't know what the novus prayers are.
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