You are loved and cared for. You didn't deserve what happened. God is near to the broken hearted. It's okay to grieve and cry about what happened. Just know God is with you ever single second, even when the pain makes it seem like he isn't. So much love to you.
I wasn't as pure as I wish I had been before marriage but I can say that every little bit of me I saved (and reclaimed) for my wife was 100% worth it! Purity of love for your spouse cannot be matched by anything else. Waiting (and reclaiming as needed) is worth it!
I am crying my eyes out Fr. Mike. Thank you for saying your words in this video. I am 80 years old and have had a great turbulent time for years now with repentance, forgiveness and in later years confession because of abuse and my own sinning. I thank you for this help. I have been praying to the Holy Spirit and God is answering me on this very subject. Oh my Jesus have mercy on me. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit speaking to me through Fr. Mike's message. Glory be to God! Time to move forward!
This was very touching. I’ve been morning a life I wanted to have and didn’t happen. I made so many mistakes and let men used me. I’ve taken years to be in celibacy. I recently accepted Jesus and finally feel peace. I don’t feel bitter for my past anymore.
These words are far more powerful than you probably even realize. You are such a light in this world. I feel blessed and honored to watch you. Thank you for your videos.
Father God Holy Abba in Jesus name please forgive me for lust, wrath, greed, anger, hatred, pride, sloth and avarice. please forgive me God for any sin known or unknown to me. In Jesus Christ's name I seek forgiveness from the Good Lord. O my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from hellfire and lead all souls to Heaven especially those in most need of thy mercy Alleilua Amen.
From here I want to encourage all of you to pray the rosary. Our Lady of Fatima promises great graces and aid to those who do. Now I pray it every day, and always pray for all those in need of God's grace. Let's pray to have more priests like father Mike. God bless you all.
Needed this in a lot of ways. Even though I've been to confession and I've prayed for forgiveness, there is still an internal guilt that I feel. But it is so true that God has made my brokenness into something even more beautiful. Now, I can testify to the virtue of chastity with a great understanding of how much lust and impurity really hurts a person. I'm not broken anymore; I'm restored into something even more beautiful.
I always end up crying when I watch your videos I can relate to that girl from your parish. I struggle with the same sentiments she struggled with. I could say so much but you always cover these hard topics with such gentility, grace, and loving kindness. It's always a blessing to hear your take on matters such as this 💗💗💗
Someone hurt me when I was 6. Woke up in the night to it. It made the rest of my childhood kind of horrible and then I acted out in shameful ways. Now in my late 40s trying hard to find my way to God. Trying to forgive and be forgiven. It's hard, but I don't see an alternative to being saved. I hope I'm doing better with God. I'm finally realizing self denial too. I'm glad for that and will pray for the strength.
Forgiveness doesnt mean you cant feel pain, it is only trusting God for the pain you feel and not to hate. We think forgiveness is a self choice,but the truth it is a grace from God that you have to ask.
Fr. Mike, Often and even after confessing I find it hard to forgive myself. This podcast is truly healing. I praise God for your voice. And, thanks for your coooolness!
I saw your beard grow. I have been since a long time ah ah ;) Anyway it is always a pleasure to listen to you Father. You have very goods teaching skills in presenting things. And your subjects are always very interesting. As a young woman dealing with the lust sin It warmed my heart to know that my body is precious and that sexuality is a blessing (not always a sin). I kind of knew it but it makes me feel better to hear a priest say it. Oh Lord I needed it. I prayed about it and you made this video. The Holy Spirit is truly amazing, so kind and powerful. Amen Thank you Father Mike. God Bless You
Absolutely beautiful presentation on restorative power of God's mercy to fill in the cracks with grace and create something new that brings honor and glory to His mighty name! Thank you so much, Fr. Mike!
I think that worse than the physical harm of molestation is the betrayal of trust, the warping of self worth and the terrifying world view as a dangerous place.
What a lovely Japanese word! 🤩As a long time Japanese learner, it is lovely to have one of my favourite foreign languages featured in a video talking about the human body’s worth. And what a beautiful metaphor, indeed.
This is a hard video to watch, but the message is true. There are so many people out there who have been abused, but God's Holy Spirit, with time and grace, can "Heal the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds" (Psalm 147). Thank you, Fr. Mike.
Beautifully said Fr. Brokenness can come by abuse, disease, tragedy but God’s grace is sufficient and He alone can restore our brokenness. We were made for Heaven♥️♥️♥️✝️. God bless always♥️😊. Ave Maria🌹. Onward and upward 🙌✝️
This is one of the best videos and messages you have ever made, THANK YOU!!! Side note is that broken China is actually more valuable after it is repaired by the craftsman you talk about. So much so that people purposefully break their China, just to have it restored! So to quote your favorite word, you are “broken”, so you can be restored to glory! Yes I am 32 days into your bible in a year!! 😊🙏
God is the Master of taking what was once broken dirty, useless, and restoring it to an even better state than it previously ever was. *Our God is an Awesome God!!!* 🕆📿💖😆
My grandma told a story of how she broke her mother's precious China tea set while playing tea party with it on the back porch. Her mother was recently widowed and the tea set had been a wedding gift. She said when her mother saw what she had done, she saw tears in her eyes. That look of pain on her mother's face stayed with her the rest of her life. This is how much the sins of sexual abusers offend God and Our Blessed Mother. Pray that the victims are healed and the abusers will humble themselves and repent before it's too late. At death, our opportunity for repentance, forgiveness and mercy is lost.
Wow, Fr Mike, I never thought about the temple in Jerusalem being misused and abused like our bodies. It’s amazing how God can use anything and everything to tell us something.
I always look forward to Fr Mike Schimtz videos. Especially today before I watched this, the message "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit" such a lovely promise of being restored when broken. I find this so enriching- the promise of God's unconditional love for us through Jesus Christ
I had been thinking about this restoration with gold in Asian pottery too lately and it is lovely. God can do absolutely anything, He is not bound my our worldly possibilities and convictions of scarcity. Your worth is nothing that anybody can decide over, it's something that's given to you. It's part of your entire being, if you will, it's like your anatomy only much more eternal. Just because someone fails to treat you as that doesn't mean they can take away from your worth. It can cause you to not feel it but it never goes away, it just gets covered up. And you can pull away the darkness so that your light shines again, bright and for you and everybody to see. God bless, this was a lovely message.
WOW 😮!!! How and what a beautiful message. I love watching your videos. I have felt this way many times unfortunately satan knows just when and how to dig right in to your heart to remind you of your past sins. I have asked God when are you going to give up on me. You know what His answer was “I will always love you and will always be here for for you. You are my child and deserving of all my love.” If He can love me like that imagine how much more He can love you!!!!!! God Bless
I was throughout the whole video thinking about Kintsugi, and here you mention it too. I believe, that our cracks help us to understand, to show more compassion, to show more empathy. No one is without sin or flaw. What an amazing video, it really touched my heart, Farther Mike. Sending blessings to everyone.
You are a breath of fresh air, Father. I am always inspired by you and Father Goring. May God continue to bless and strengthen you both, and all the good, faithful shepherds out here who must battle hard in those difficult times.
Father Mike, So, so glad you brought up kintsugi!! I've been hearing about it and the symbolism of it is just incredible. How something broken is put back together and overlaid with gold, but in a way that highlights the broken pieces. And that is the key to this art form. It's like they own the brokenness and the prior piece is transformed- wow! 😀And the piece is displayed proudly as a newly minted masterpiece. Thank you!!
Father your so Amazing and loving!! Thank you! Please don't think your missing out on something because your a priest, YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!! AND I WISH YOU PEACE, LOVE AND JOY!! GOD BLESS YOU FATHER!!!!
Thanks for this message Father Mike. It needed to be said. Sometimes we do things or experience things and then feel like we have no more worth. Thank you. God bless you and keep you well always.
Awesome video! Thank you for the wisdom of the holy spirit. Keep doing God work it is well needed. Thank you. For the sake of the sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world amen.
Awesome message thank you so much! If I could help others with what I have learned from my mistakes that would be the best thing I could do for God others and myself!
I was feeling so down today. Nothing like coming home and seeing Fr. Mike video now available on youtube in my inbox. I love your videos and stories. God bless you Father I love you in Christ. Thank you for all you do Fr. Mike. I was abused in my youth ... I have felt so unworthy of love for years, thank you for this video. God speaks and shares his love through you. #ThankingGodForFrMike 🕇❤
Thank you Fr.Mike for making me realize that The Holy Temple of the Lord can be restored. It was a beautiful video. May the Lord be with all of us, now and forever.
There is a saying that I love, it goes like this "GOD is in a recycling business turning garbage in to treasure" so I always try to remind HIM of that when I feel like garbage. To tell you the truth you look more like a father with a beard than without it 😁😁😁..... And I really like it. I love you fr. Mike and thank you
My wife and I “waited” until we were married. 25 years later and that was the corner stone of our marriage. Can’t quite explain it but made us great at communicating with each other. God Bless you Fr Mike. Hope your mom got over her thing getting broke. 😂
Really beatiful message. Wounds are painful, make us suffer and feel we are worthless. I love the idea that God can restore us and heal us, and make something really beatiful with us, even through our wounds. Thank you Father Mike. And nice beard 😜
Yes, Our Lord loves us damaged and hurting bc we need God restoratiive powers, he wants us to need him and he hopes we'll want him to reside in us always. Come Holy Spirit Alleluia!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Thank you, as always, for sharing the Truth in boldness and in love!
@kelly K uuhhhmm. Yeah. It's the one and only Emily Wilson. She's got great content
@@AngelaDugan Thank you Angela!
Someone hurt me very much Father. This message is very helpful.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
You are loved and cared for. You didn't deserve what happened. God is near to the broken hearted. It's okay to grieve and cry about what happened. Just know God is with you ever single second, even when the pain makes it seem like he isn't. So much love to you.
Pls, Offer your pain to Him wholeheartedly for His greater glory. Cast all your burdens upon Him and He'll give you rest
I wasn't as pure as I wish I had been before marriage but I can say that every little bit of me I saved (and reclaimed) for my wife was 100% worth it! Purity of love for your spouse cannot be matched by anything else. Waiting (and reclaiming as needed) is worth it!
Me either. But we are forgiven through confession. ❤️🙏✝️
It is soooo worth the wait...
I am crying my eyes out Fr. Mike. Thank you for saying your words in this video. I am 80 years old and have had a great turbulent time for years now with repentance, forgiveness and in later years confession because of abuse and my own sinning. I thank you for this help. I have been praying to the Holy Spirit and God is answering me on this very subject. Oh my Jesus have mercy on me. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit speaking to me through Fr. Mike's message. Glory be to God! Time to move forward!
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This was very touching. I’ve been morning a life I wanted to have and didn’t happen. I made so many mistakes and let men used me. I’ve taken years to be in celibacy. I recently accepted Jesus and finally feel peace. I don’t feel bitter for my past anymore.
Beautiful is simply all I can say. Glory be to The Father, to The Son, and to The Holy Spirit for Their great Love.
These words are far more powerful than you probably even realize. You are such a light in this world. I feel blessed and honored to watch you. Thank you for your videos.
This video hits hard. It makes me realize my mistakes and regrets CAN, WILL, and HAVE been forgiven! Thanks so much Father Mike!
This video confirms the broken pieces of my temple. The desecration done by those around me, growing up. They'll answer to God for every broke piece.
Father God Holy Abba in Jesus name please forgive me for lust, wrath, greed, anger, hatred, pride, sloth and avarice. please forgive me God for any sin known or unknown to me. In Jesus Christ's name I seek forgiveness from the Good Lord. O my Jesus forgive us our sins, save us from hellfire and lead all souls to Heaven especially those in most need of thy mercy Alleilua Amen.
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From here I want to encourage all of you to pray the rosary. Our Lady of Fatima promises great graces and aid to those who do. Now I pray it every day, and always pray for all those in need of God's grace. Let's pray to have more priests like father Mike. God bless you all.
Thumbs up for the sun and Son
Yes!!! My Wednesday highlight, a new Fr. Mike vid from Ascension Presents 🙌🏽
Such compassion. A lovely story, but good advice
I can’t ‘like’ this enough.
Needed this in a lot of ways.
Even though I've been to confession and I've prayed for forgiveness, there is still an internal guilt that I feel.
But it is so true that God has made my brokenness into something even more beautiful.
Now, I can testify to the virtue of chastity with a great understanding of how much lust and impurity really hurts a person.
I'm not broken anymore; I'm restored into something even more beautiful.
The most powerful message I’ve ever heard
“Even more”
I always end up crying when I watch your videos
I can relate to that girl from your parish. I struggle with the same sentiments she struggled with. I could say so much but you always cover these hard topics with such gentility, grace, and loving kindness. It's always a blessing to hear your take on matters such as this 💗💗💗
I can sure relate ! God bless 🙏🏻
May God be glorified for his grace and mercy
Someone hurt me when I was 6. Woke up in the night to it. It made the rest of my childhood kind of horrible and then I acted out in shameful ways. Now in my late 40s trying hard to find my way to God. Trying to forgive and be forgiven. It's hard, but I don't see an alternative to being saved. I hope I'm doing better with God. I'm finally realizing self denial too. I'm glad for that and will pray for the strength.
I am praying for you too peace and love to you💕
I'm so sorry this happened to you.
Forgiveness doesnt mean you cant feel pain, it is only trusting God for the pain you feel and not to hate. We think forgiveness is a self choice,but the truth it is a grace from God that you have to ask.
So sorry something precious and fragile was broken, but so pleased that it prompted your analogy. This video is absolutely blessed. Thank you!
Fr. Mike, Often and even after confessing I find it hard to forgive myself. This podcast is truly healing. I praise God for your voice. And, thanks for your coooolness!
Thank you Holy Spirit for your generous and loving words spoken through Father Mike! Glory to GOD in the highest♥
Thank you as always!
Amen to your words. I was one of those broken. NOW I am back full and loved. After so many years.
Thank you Father Mike. It's why Good Friday is so good...we come to that cross and in Christ's power of redemption we are restored.
Great Priest... God bless you father ❤ Tradcat
Jesus saw it all. He walked the streets and did talk and what a walk and physically suffered and died.
I saw your beard grow. I have been since a long time ah ah ;) Anyway it is always a pleasure to listen to you Father. You have very goods teaching skills in presenting things. And your subjects are always very interesting. As a young woman dealing with the lust sin It warmed my heart to know that my body is precious and that sexuality is a blessing (not always a sin). I kind of knew it but it makes me feel better to hear a priest say it. Oh Lord I needed it. I prayed about it and you made this video. The Holy Spirit is truly amazing, so kind and powerful. Amen
Thank you Father Mike. God Bless You
Anyone great was once broken . Moses , Job , Mary Magdelene , David ,Joseph
Thank you, Father. This message really means a lot to me. I wish I watched this earlier. Finding you on UA-cam is a blessing. Thank you.
To God be the glory. Thank you Father Mike. It's always heart warming to listen to the Holy Spirit through you.
Absolutely beautiful presentation on restorative power of God's mercy to fill in the cracks with grace and create something new that brings honor and glory to His mighty name! Thank you so much, Fr. Mike!
Please pray for me and my Godmother Diane and for all of our families and friends..for conversion and holiness and healing...
I think that worse than the physical harm of molestation is the betrayal of trust, the warping of self worth and the terrifying world view as a dangerous place.
What a lovely Japanese word! 🤩As a long time Japanese learner, it is lovely to have one of my favourite foreign languages featured in a video talking about the human body’s worth. And what a beautiful metaphor, indeed.
This is a hard video to watch, but the message is true. There are so many people out there who have been abused, but God's Holy Spirit, with time and grace, can "Heal the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds" (Psalm 147). Thank you, Fr. Mike.
Beautifully said Fr. Brokenness can come by abuse, disease, tragedy but God’s grace is sufficient and He alone can restore our brokenness. We were made for Heaven♥️♥️♥️✝️. God bless always♥️😊. Ave Maria🌹. Onward and upward 🙌✝️
😢 such a beautiful message. You’re spot on with this message.
Thank you Father Mike, I sent this to all my girls.
Wow god is so good for all of us he is so close to all he's children
This is one of the best videos and messages you have ever made, THANK YOU!!! Side note is that broken China is actually more valuable after it is repaired by the craftsman you talk about. So much so that people purposefully break their China, just to have it restored! So to quote your favorite word, you are “broken”, so you can be restored to glory! Yes I am 32 days into your bible in a year!! 😊🙏
God is the Master of taking what was once broken dirty, useless, and restoring it to an even better state than it previously ever was. *Our God is an Awesome God!!!* 🕆📿💖😆
My grandma told a story of how she broke her mother's precious China tea set while playing tea party with it on the back porch. Her mother was recently widowed and the tea set had been a wedding gift. She said when her mother saw what she had done, she saw tears in her eyes. That look of pain on her mother's face stayed with her the rest of her life.
This is how much the sins of sexual abusers offend God and Our Blessed Mother. Pray that the victims are healed and the abusers will humble themselves and repent before it's too late. At death, our opportunity for repentance, forgiveness and mercy is lost.
Wow, Fr Mike, I never thought about the temple in Jerusalem being misused and abused like our bodies. It’s amazing how God can use anything and everything to tell us something.
I can't say in words how thankful I am for this.
I always look forward to Fr Mike Schimtz videos. Especially today before I watched this, the message "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit" such a lovely promise of being restored when broken. I find this so enriching- the promise of God's unconditional love for us through Jesus Christ
This was beautiful. I'm so glad you are a priest, Fr. Mike. Thank you for your vocation (and God too).
Beard game strong 👍🏼 #VivaCristoRey
I had been thinking about this restoration with gold in Asian pottery too lately and it is lovely. God can do absolutely anything, He is not bound my our worldly possibilities and convictions of scarcity. Your worth is nothing that anybody can decide over, it's something that's given to you. It's part of your entire being, if you will, it's like your anatomy only much more eternal. Just because someone fails to treat you as that doesn't mean they can take away from your worth. It can cause you to not feel it but it never goes away, it just gets covered up. And you can pull away the darkness so that your light shines again, bright and for you and everybody to see.
God bless, this was a lovely message.
Amazing!!!! I love you Jesus!!! 💕💕💕
WOW 😮!!! How and what a beautiful message. I love watching your videos. I have felt this way many times unfortunately satan knows just when and how to dig right in to your heart to remind you of your past sins. I have asked God when are you going to give up on me. You know what His answer was “I will always love you and will always be here for for you. You are my child and deserving of all my love.” If He can love me like that imagine how much more He can love you!!!!!! God Bless
I was throughout the whole video thinking about Kintsugi, and here you mention it too. I believe, that our cracks help us to understand, to show more compassion, to show more empathy. No one is without sin or flaw. What an amazing video, it really touched my heart, Farther Mike. Sending blessings to everyone.
You are a breath of fresh air, Father. I am always inspired by you and Father Goring. May God continue to bless and strengthen you both, and all the good, faithful shepherds out here who must battle hard in those difficult times.
Father Mike,
So, so glad you brought up kintsugi!! I've been hearing about it and the symbolism of it is just incredible. How something broken is put back together and overlaid with gold, but in a way that highlights the broken pieces. And that is the key to this art form. It's like they own the brokenness and the prior piece is transformed- wow! 😀And the piece is displayed proudly as a newly minted masterpiece. Thank you!!
Beautiful message as always Father Mike! Thank you and God bless you in your ministry!🙏🏻
Thank you Father!!
Man, keep them coming. Lord bless.
Father your so Amazing and loving!! Thank you! Please don't think your missing out on something because your a priest, YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!! AND I WISH YOU PEACE, LOVE AND JOY!! GOD BLESS YOU FATHER!!!!
may the Holy Spirit continue to inspire you. IJN! love u Fr. Mike
This video is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever watched! Thank you and God bless you ❤️
Thank you Father Mike!! This is beautiful!!
You are doing God's work. Quite literally. I love you father. Thank you for your guidance.
Thanks for this message Father Mike. It needed to be said. Sometimes we do things or experience things and then feel like we have no more worth. Thank you. God bless you and keep you well always.
Thank you, Father Mike! God bless and Merry Christmas!
This made me cry like a baby. Thank you Father Mike! ❤️
Man, Father! You make cool Videos! God bless you! ♱
Thank you Jesus for that beautiful message 🙏🙌❤
That's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard, Father. You're a gift to the world.
Thank you Father mike ALWAYS for your wonderful and inspiring messages!
Awesome video! Thank you for the wisdom of the holy spirit. Keep doing God work it is well needed. Thank you. For the sake of the sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world amen.
I just read that verse in the bible 😅 this always happens: when I need advice I always get it here or somewhere else, it just comes to me, so weird 😅
Holy Spirit!
There are no coincidences!
@@kimfleury I was just saying the same thing today. I don't believe in coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.
It's not weird It's God.
😇 God bless
Thankyou, Father Mike
This is good. My heart is broken.
Love your videos, they give me peace and comfort.
Love it Fr. Mike.
God bless
Awesome message thank you so much! If I could help others with what I have learned from my mistakes that would be the best thing I could do for God others and myself!
What a true message. Once given or taken wrongly it can’t be returned. Thank God for being mercy. He can restore everything.
You’re a natural for this. God bless you Fr Mike!
Praise God.. Thank you for your guidance Father. Praying for you always ❤️
Thank you Father for your wisdom and blessing. I hope you're doing good. Take care. God bless.
Fr. Schmitz does it again!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for that Fr. Mike
I have always loved the spirit of kentsugi since I found out about it and it is wonderful to hear connected to God's grace.
Thank you Father for teaching us that with God's Grace there is restoration
When I feel broken, God always talks to me and one of those ways is you Fr., thank you from the bottom of my heart for being an instrument of God
Thank you Father, this is the best I have ever heard 🙏 Your messages are so deep and comforting. Love from India ♥️
I was feeling so down today. Nothing like coming home and seeing Fr. Mike video now available on youtube in my inbox. I love your videos and stories. God bless you Father I love you in Christ. Thank you for all you do Fr. Mike. I was abused in my youth ... I have felt so unworthy of love for years, thank you for this video. God speaks and shares his love through you. #ThankingGodForFrMike 🕇❤
Thank you Fr.Mike for making me realize that The Holy Temple of the Lord can be restored. It was a beautiful video. May the Lord be with all of us, now and forever.
YES! Purity is so much more than the history of your body! Jesus is able to redeem and heal any brokenness!
Thank you for this video. Instead of feeling guilt and shame I can accept Gods grace and glory through my sins and pain. Very beautiful and humbling
There is a saying that I love, it goes like this "GOD is in a recycling business turning garbage in to treasure" so I always try to remind HIM of that when I feel like garbage. To tell you the truth you look more like a father with a beard than without it 😁😁😁..... And I really like it.
I love you fr. Mike and thank you
This brought tears to my eyes. Thank you! ❤🌹
My wife and I “waited” until we were married. 25 years later and that was the corner stone of our marriage. Can’t quite explain it but made us great at communicating with each other. God Bless you Fr Mike. Hope your mom got over her thing getting broke. 😂
Thank you Father Mike!! You're my favorite lighthouse.
Really beatiful message. Wounds are painful, make us suffer and feel we are worthless. I love the idea that God can restore us and heal us, and make something really beatiful with us, even through our wounds.
Thank you Father Mike. And nice beard 😜
Thank God for you Father Mike you saved my life twice now
God sent me this video, speechless 🙏🏼♥️✨
Yes, Our Lord loves us damaged and hurting bc we need God restoratiive powers, he wants us to need him and he hopes we'll want him to reside in us always. Come Holy Spirit Alleluia!