Father Mike, when you said that God let’s broken hearts happen so that it can be healed by Him, man, I couldn’t take it and broke down. It hit home and I think this is God’s way of saying, “you’re on the right path.. chose Me” thank you so much Father. Honestly. 🙏
Has anyone else watched so many Fr. Mike videos that they feel like they know him personally? I bet a lot of people feel this way. He has helped so many of us!
Father Mike, I've commented to most people I know that I've seen more families biking or walking together, Dad's playing with kids, kids playing outside, or just people walking their dogs than I have in the last 10 years combined. Also, the earth is cleaning itself up from our pollution. Yes, bad things are happening but there's a lot of good coming out of this crisis if we have eyes to see it
I do agree, good things will come out of this crisis. Although, The earth does not “Clean itself“, The earth is not a sentient being, it is not a god. I believe this is a chastisement that God is letting happen to us probably because of the indifference The human race has of him and his laws.
Please pray for us. I’m a widow and my son goes to Kennedy Catholic high school. ✝️ Please pray for Pam and my son, Gavin. ✝️🙏. My son wants to go to Saint Martins University. Please pray for us.
My son doesn't hate pizza, but it's never his preference (want to say there was a switching mix-up at the hospital when he was born). But I thoroughly enjoyed Father Mike's intro, because that scene he described was routinely us when we were out and looking for food. My son: I don't care, anything. My son's response to every suggestion: I don't want that.
Father Mike, THANK YOU for this video! I’m a recent convert (2 years ago, 4/1 was my Catholic birthday!) and come from a secular family, so I’ve been kind of on my own with studying and practicing my religion in general. Your videos have been a great help to me all throughout the process. I turned this on to help me focus before saying my nightly prayer, something I’ve been struggling with recently, and what you said in this video just completely, specifically clicked with what I’m struggling with right now. This was exactly what I needed to here and just gave me a major break through in my relationship with God. Thank you for all you do! (:
Message from the Lord: "He is not a God that abandons his people. It is not his nature, it is not his nature. He is ever present, ever present. God is our ever present help in time of trouble. Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. The only name by which people are saved. He cannot look at his people and look away. God will answer his people. He is their God. God is always present, do not forget that, child of God. It is not his nature to look away." 🙇♂️
Instead of "I don't care" say "I don't have any good ideas right now" or even better, if you realized the mood you were in, "I honestly don't know if I feel like anything right now."
I realized now a true heartbreak I had 2 years ago and took this long to recover from was Gods way of showing me how to get thru it the right way thru him and not thru drinking or going out with others to numb the pain ...thank you Lord🙏
There was an old TV show called "Father Knows Best" staring Robert Young as the father. The children always had questions and conflicts. The father (Robert Young) never gave a easy to follow answer. There was a process, his children had to learn by doing. I think that a common story line in many 1950's and 1960's TV shows. You made me realize about that process going on between God and my life. Part of the process is hearing from Father Mike.
@@jansonmur4362 I hope that you will become interested in Church history, because it's important to God that we "be one, as He and the Father are One." And that He founded "His Church," not churches, and has only one Bride. Let the Holy Spirit guide you. God bless!🙏
@@wms72 I actually do believe that and have chosen to remain with my religion which believes God has restored His church and authority in this dispensation. But I dont want to get into the debate that almost inevitably follows when I state on a Christian page that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Dat Saint
I've never heard this perspective before and it is exactly what I needed to hear. In 2018 I lost my mom to cancer, in 2019 I had to walk away from my "dream job" amidst depression and a toxic work environment, in 2020 my child was diagnosed with special needs. I work to trust God every single day and I fail more than I succeed...but this perspective is so inspiring and is helping me cope with the why's. Thank you.
Wow just what I needed. I asked God make me love in the ways you do. Got my heart broken and now I'm growing in ways I've never loved myself or others before. At first it was hard, my hope and truth is that this has happened for me to grow and go to a place with God that I have never been to. Thank you for the reassurance and clarity Father Mike.
I watched the service you led last Sunday Father Mike, and it was beautiful and so peaceful ❤ I would like to ask though; Before the virus started, I wanted to get baptised at my local church, but now I can't attend church. Is there a way to still be baptised, or will God understand why I'm not?
Where you to be baptized at a Catholic church? If so, at least in my parish, baptisms are suspended for now. However, if you are truly seeking baptism and are ready for it, if anything were to happen to you, you would receive what is called “baptism by desire.” This basically means that if you were to die, you would receive the graces of baptism through your active seeking of it. For now, I know it’s easier said than done but be patient. Trust Him. He has a plan! He is with you.
@@kaitlynlightfoot9591 Thank you so much for your response💖 Yes it was St Cuthberts (the church that belonged to my local primary school). However I didn't have an actual baptism booked with the church, but I did ask to have one. If so, how would I be able to ask about baptism through desire?
Please don't ever say that God does not understand. God knows ALL. He knows your situation and He knows your heart. Trust God to keep you close until the time you can get baptized.❤
Rosie anderton You don’t ask about baptism by desire! All it basically means is that if you die un-baptized, you will receive the graces of baptism simply by your desire for it, so you don’t have to worry. Until then, call up your parish priest and see if he can schedule an individual baptism. This may be different from diocese to diocese as mine as suspended all baptisms for now, but some are still doing individual ones with just family there. If your parish isn’t doing baptisms right now, be patient. God has a plan. And do not worry about it for now because if you were to die before being baptized, you will receive all the graces of baptism through baptism by desire. You can still seek Him out. I encourage you to pray a simple “Come Holy Spirit” and invite Him to dwell in you.
The moment that what is said is so accurate and so good that you actually ugh in frustration at your screen. Sometimes it is hard to do this, but more notably, I find it hard to do this joyfully and with a heart full of love. Mama Mary wrap us in your mantle and comfort us.
I've had two awful, painful, brutal heartbreaks within the past year, but this process has brought me profoundly closer to God. Before, I would've said God hated me and was punishing me, but I've learned through the accidental discovery of Fr Mike's videos that's not the truth at all. God allowed me to suffer through these heartbreaks, so I could learn about His love for me and respond accordingly when He called me to Him. I no longer believe God hates me when I suffer; instead, I feel His love and try to understand what He is teaching me. Opening my heart this way has been life changing, and it makes this suffering less painful. It still hurts, but I feel I am loved throughout. And I know it's all in His plan, so I surrender over and over. Thank you Ascension and Father Mike! You are doing God's work!
This is a really bad analogy, makes it seem like God is a manipulative person. I don't get it, the process is too long, I never do it right. I'm tired of trying and failing.
We did that with our kids. We let them figure things our for themselves through trial and error because in life, they - now 19, 21, and 23 - are being rewarded with this ability. Great homily!
Love the broken heart part of the video ❤ not only does it speak to me because of the situation I am going thru but also because in general "He heals the brokenhearted..." is my favourite line of the Bible (Psalm 147:3). Thank you Fr. Mike.
@Ana I've been BEGGING God to help me. And all I get is more pain. God is driving me away from him. Maybe he wants me to blow my brains out, and then punish me for it
Yup, that's basically what Eckhart Tolle said too, don't resist the experience, don't judge it but abandon yourself to it completely and you will be able to overcome it. God is with us. That's something I'm just learning super painfully in the midst of it all but I get kinda excited, seeing where I'm going and looking forward to getting into that trust. What a challenge but what an immeasurable gift in the end! 🙏🏼🌟💜
I prayed and asked God for wisdom, knowledge, and development of my talents, skills, and intelligence....then God through fate and circumstances made me decide to stop schooling, have depression and anxiety and stay at home for years of fears and worries and sadness...but I learned many things new that I didn't learn in school and can't learn from books in school from people around me, from other people through digital and virtual means, from other books I never read before, from undergoing life, by staying with my family, by discovering new things I can do and capable of doing, by understanding my self more than ever.... I asked and pray to God to make me strong, brave, and more confident....then God through my life's journey let me have depression and anxiety, fears, worries, sadness, insomnias, stress, nightmares, and pains... but I learned to try to find new ways to stay hopeful amidst all those, and for me that's a form.of strength, bravery, and endurance..I also learned to try to build my confidence again everyday as everyday it breaks, so then everyday I rebuild it over and over.... I asked and prayed to God to have temperance and patience.....then God through my life got me into this mental, emtional, psychological, and spiritual journey for more than 5 years already without much changes and improvements....but I learned to wait, to trust, and to stay hopeful even the things happening to me and my life seem not to change that much, and even I had moments of improvement but then afterwards I fall again, fail again, and get stuck again in this cycle of sadness, anger, fears, sleepless nights, pains, moments of hopelessness and restlessness, and lack of confidence. I prayed to God for abundance, prosperity, and wealth.....then God made me stayed at home with my family, not being able to have the confidence and grit to attend school again and do my life well which I am used to, and not having anymore the fame I had out of my schooling, talents, intelligence, and leadership...but I realized the wealth of my family and their love and support for me, the prosperity of isolation and taking good care of myself, the prosperity to have time to deal with my health, the abundance of important but commonly less noticed privileges and life that I have, the abundance of small and little things that sustains life and brings joy, and the wealth of having the ability to still use my talents, share my knowledge, inspire others, counsel others I can, lead some people, and learn new things even at home with less to no direct interpersonal contact to the public, other people, my community, and strangers. I asked and prayed to God for freedom to be myself, to achieve my dreams and ambitions in life, to do and live the life that I want....then God allowed me to fell, to fail, to have these issues and problems, to isolate, and undergo this totally new, different, sad, painful, and hope-breaking journery...but I realized how still free I am despite of these, how free I am compared to other people in past and present, and how I still can live what I desire in simple ways. I asked and prayed to God to allow His will to be done unto me if that's what it takes for me to live a better life, to glorify Him, and to be His instrument....then God sent me into this darkest path of my life and allowed me to undergo nightmares, doubts, fears, questions, denials, stress, isolation, hopelessness, weakness, restlessness, cowardice, limitations, mental and emotional health conditions, physical health conditions, thoughts of loosing hope, moments of discouraging my dreams and plans, moments of wanting to end my life, moments of fear of going to sleep because of nightmares and sleep paralysis but having moments too of not wanting to wake up and going on forever and in eternity deep in my goodnight sleep whenever I had one and not wanting to wake up to experience a routine of a cycle of my current situation over and over again...but I learned to still hope, rebuild my hope, to trust, and to rebuild my trust everyday and every time over and over again, and to keep myself and my existence despite all the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, moral, and spiritual challenges I am facing. I don't know what am I here for in life, in Earth, and in this year of 2020...I don't know what will happen later, tomorrow, the next day after it, and in the future tomorrows that will come....I don't know where I am going, what should I do, how should I do, where should I go, who I shall need the most, who will I meet or meet again, and what will happen to me...I don't know if this is still God's will and plans that I shpuld still trust and go through despite the hard times, or is it the tricks of the enemies wanting me to fail and go on into cycle of this difficult moments until I loose my faith and hope, or is this my punishment, the consequences I need to undergo because of my sins and wickedness, of my evils and wrongdoings, of my religious and spiritual struggles....or is this a curse that someon put me into, or a curse I got into unintentionally...or is this my fault after all, the fruits of my daily bad choices and poor decisions, the consequences of my mind, the products of my past, and the results of my complains, laziness, pride, and inactions.....I don't know exactly. Still, I undergo this path, this journey, these struggles, these challenges...and still trust and always try to keep a small flame of hope within me.
Sining Tadhana impressive long journey of battle against the odds. May God listen to your cry of the heart & soon release you from the captivity of lies and deceit.
Dear sibling in Christ, never lose hope and know that God never fails to listen to His children. Just confide in Him, entrust Him everything in your life and let Him operate in you through His Holy Spirit. Don't despair, God ways are different from ours but definitely the Best! He is our Father so in an unmissable way He will provide all what our body and soul need. Be patient and learn from these ordeals . Never feel abandoned or loved less than others by Our Lord because He bestowes His Love and Mercy the Same way upon each and everyone , including those wicked and lost. You are loved dear sibling , God is allowing you to carry a part of His Holy Cross by permitting you to experience tough moments during your journey here on Earth. You are being purified this way and drawn closer to God each time you realize and accept with patience and submission the suffering you have experienced and the one you are to undergo . Amen!
I could click that like button a million times more.. Thank you so much for that Fr.Mike. This was truly an eye opener...or rather a heart opener. God and his ways...👌🥰 I pray that the Lord give you all the strength you need in your mission for changing lives and good health to carry it out too. Much love from India.
Amen. So appropriate.for me now. Pls God give me the strength to carry my cross and know you are there with me. It shall be done on your time and not mine. Lord have mercy on me your daughter a sinner. Amen
When God gives me the process directly ... via Mike, Gabe, or Raph, or even Metatron, I will believe the process... Otherwise it's flawed processes....
Perfect timing! Literally just did my last push to resist the process. I'm done resisting and giving it all to Him. I am ceasing trying to make it happen my own way and I feel scared yet free in a way. In prayer 💜🙏
In the body there's a division of free space where we liberate excess that division i never let go and sustud as the union point that identify s me as the creator point GOD SO WHAT I DID TO THE SPIRITUAL MASS AT THE START WAS MAKE UNION AND THAT UNION BROUGHT OUT FIRMLY ON MY IDENTITY WITH A SIMPLE UNION ON MY INTAMITE PARTS DIVISION.
Gods Way is Forgiveness. Jesus Said..”Forgive and you Shall be Forgiven.” “Do not Forgive and you Shall not be Forgiven.” We bring our own calamities by breaking Gods Commandments and not Forgiving others. The virus is God. He is Tired of our Pride and our Love of Money and Everything but Him.
I'm a slow learner. After 44 years of wedded bliss, I have come to the conclusion that, "what do you want for supper?" translates in wife speak to, take me out to eat somewhere...Duh. Silly me....Thank you, Father Mike;
Fr. Mike, Are you a basketball fan? For many years, the Philadelphia ‘76ers their fans to, “Trust the process.” Hopefully, this phrase works better in the Divine economy than it has in the NBA!
The man born blind in John 9:3 suffered a lot in his life, even though he and his parents hadn't done anything wrong. But Jesus brought good out of it and healed him. It's tempting to think "God is punishing me" and I'll admit I've felt that way a lot before, but that's not how God works. Original Sin opened the door to suffering, but God doesn't say, "you cheated on the test or you had an affair and so you're going to get the flu now". God allows bad things to happen which don't make sense to us and maybe never will... but He will bring good out of those sufferings. He always does.
Fr Mike - This is awesome. But I admit it can be a bit challenging to wrap our heads around this approach. As a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd catechist, I'm struck by how similar this is to the Montessori-based approach we have found to be most successful for helping our children grow in faith. Just giving a child the answer might feel helpful to them in the moment, but being willing to go on the journey and guide them on the journey of discovering the answer is when we see the child really grow. This frequently means you have to watch the child try something you know will fail to help really teach them a better way. Hope this helps people who wonder why God would choose such a frustrating process for us to learn. I'm convinced it's because He is our loving Father and this really is the best way for us to learn. HTH. Be well and God bless!
“In the face of God's obvious inadequacies, the pious have generally held that one cannot apply earthly norms to the Creator of the universe. This argument loses its force the moment we notice that the Creator who purports to be beyond human judgment is consistently ruled by human passions- jealousy, wrath, suspicion, and the lust to dominate. A close study of our holy books reveals that the God of Abraham is a ridiculous fellow-capricious, petulant, and cruel-and one with whom a covenant is little guarantee of health or happiness. If these are the characteristics of God, then the worst among us have been created far more in his image than we ever could have hoped.” -Sam Harris
What part of, "I am the way..." Made you thing God has ways? Not only is there ONE way only but also he himself is the way. Maybe its cause your catholic you can't actually follow the scriptures or read them correctly.
I need the process to end, I've worked my whole life, developed schizophrenia now taking meds and working again but I'm now 42 living at my mother's house, I have 1 child which is a teenager who I never get to talk to, I'm scraping by pay check to pay check, while all my other cousins have houses and children and muscle cars and I can see business opportunities that I want to get into but everytime I attempt to save to get into them a new bill turns up and it seems I'm just stuck in this same position over and over it's crisis after crises and I just want to grow and flourish but I just can't.
I am not Catholic, but am really enjoying videos from all Ascension speakers. Learning about the church. One question I have not seen is regarding a Christian lifestyle. The bible teaches to share all you have; take care of the poor and needy. Most religious take a vow of poverty. So how is it a Christian value for the pope to live in a palace and the Church to amass an obscene amount of Wealth?
I don't understand why he is so scared to give examples of this "process." Like is there any particular reason that he has to be so vague. He goes on and on about this "process" with hardly any explanation as to what it is. What is God wanting me to choose? Who tf is Jack?
What this does is wakes my spiritualization system that needs to be spiritualized because I am God and everything is presise i wasnt going to let any other segregated identity of mine be me presisely. yes it's me GOD I'm in process of documentation by the law and lawyers.
Fr Mike! Please pray for me and my exboyfriend. (Carol and Tony.) Of course my heart is naturally sad. I pray that our paths will meet again and we can have a relationship that leads to marriage. I understand that the goal of a couple is to help the other person to get to heaven. I was not doing well mentally and that is why he left me. He said he had no peace in is heart. He said he would always pray for me and than hung up the phone. Pray that I get well and that my ex gets well too. All I have is hope!
Hello father Mike! Is watching horror movies bad? Or is there any adverse effects of watching it? Ive been a watcher of horror movies and I dont get scared that easily I even watch with my lights off and close doors so I could feel it but these days Ive been so vaguely scared and sometimes I feel like someones watching me or in rare cases I hear voices calling my name. I really cant ask my mom about this and I have no one to ask. Thank you in advance.
First of all God does not (lead) you any where, he has given us a free will. Secondly only the devil can lead you to evil so when you pray to the lord say take us not to the test. The prayer of our lord has unfortunately been twisted to end praying to the devil. We should refrain from saying the wrong words. The word is very important. I would to here your comments.
this year i got engaged already was living with my son's dad i had an anulment but he was divorced legally never got married in church i did... so since march of 2020 i had a spiritual calk from God and so my process has been long and painfull. I wanted to recieve confession and communion so I had to make a big sad decision not to be sleeping with my fiance note he is nit catholic so it has been hard for him to understand me but he agrees to marry me in the catholic church our process is long and this poor man sometimes says he is going to end up hating me because its been around 8 months like this and so far the archdiosis hasn't clarify us if we are aloud to get married. ive been living with him 10 years sinfuly so this is taking a big tote on us in the relationship... we both agree thar if they ask for another document than we just going to split because that is God saying no to the marriage... it hurts ne and it pains me i can't even bring myself to kiss him because i feel that is sin too... i was aloud to confess and recieve the body of christ while we wait... God's plans are different from ours
Same😅 I was like bruh, why do you keep closing all these doors I try to walk into?🤔 Now I understood the assignment😂 He did finally open one door 🚪. I know! He opened it because He's closed every other single door😅 Freedom is not doing what I want, it's freedom from sin and from walking down the wrong paths; the freedom to do His divine Will. It's impossible to walk into His Will for our lives while we are still enslaved to sin. Therefore He transforms us in the process until we are shaped into what is needed to accomplish His Will for us; which His plan of goodness for us and of great fulfillment. So much wisdom I kept asking why a long time too until... He explained to me a thing or two about Wisdom...Thank you Lord for showing me the way you have planed for me, even though the process is difficult, you've proven to be along my side and that I just need to keep riding the ride. Thank you for being the good Sheppard. Indeed, He has a specific plan for each one of us. Glory be to God! Our tests will soon become our testimonies🙏🎁❤️😎💪
How do i properly handle all the anti-catholic people i encounter on a daily basis? i don’t want to be rude it’s just so frustrating that people feel like need to be rude about my faith. i really don’t know how to take it anymore
This really hits home. As a catechumen, I got so upset that, after waiting for so long to get baptized, the Easter batch of baptism has to be postponed due to COVID-19 plague. I thought, God, if You really want me to get closer to You, why won't You let me get baptized soon? Why do I have to stay home and follow mass at home for a month and a few weeks? Today is my last day of novena. I pray so Easter wouldn't get cancelled (eventho it's already cancelled in my diocese) and then this video pops up. I guess this completes the answer to my prayer (which the answer is no). Now I understand. Maybe it's the final test of my three years of journey to be officially the daughter of God. Maybe it's the final part of the long process. And after looking back, you're right. It's a long rocky road to reach this point for me but He's always been with me... I mean, I would've not survived if He wasn't there. I feel so loved.
I noticed the way Father Mike's voice changes a little when he speaks in God's position; just little slower and a little quieter. Thank you for sharing this message Father!
It’s not that one party is saying ‘you be free to choose and let me be free to choose to shoot it down’. It’s more one party does not want the responsibility of making the choice and having the other person bear the responsibility to which the other person just makes a show of deferring to. If a choice turns out to be wrong, then that person who refused to make a choice can now claim to be free of making the wrong choice and can now fully blame the other person.
I'm born with birth diffrences that identify me God mostly everyone is born equally and the bodies that differentiate are the ones that are looked at and investigated but the true one is the one that makes click in the universal system my true identity
Father Mike, when you said that God let’s broken hearts happen so that it can be healed by Him, man, I couldn’t take it and broke down. It hit home and I think this is God’s way of saying, “you’re on the right path.. chose Me” thank you so much Father. Honestly. 🙏
Has anyone else watched so many Fr. Mike videos that they feel like they know him personally? I bet a lot of people feel this way. He has helped so many of us!
Yes 😁
Father Mike, I've commented to most people I know that I've seen more families biking or walking together, Dad's playing with kids, kids playing outside, or just people walking their dogs than I have in the last 10 years combined. Also, the earth is cleaning itself up from our pollution. Yes, bad things are happening but there's a lot of good coming out of this crisis if we have eyes to see it
I do agree, good things will come out of this crisis. Although, The earth does not “Clean itself“, The earth is not a sentient being, it is not a god. I believe this is a chastisement that God is letting happen to us probably because of the indifference The human race has of him and his laws.
@@timDOGcrane555 Your reading way too much into the earth cleaning itself up. Its nature. Rivers are cleaner, smog is down, things are better.
There is. And in Illinois the crime has gone down 👍🏻🙏
Family is where people learn to get along with others of different ages and learn to think outside themselves.
Joseph Balinski
ok you saw a few people out for a walk. That's nice.
Please pray for us. I’m a widow and my son goes to Kennedy Catholic high school. ✝️ Please pray for Pam and my son, Gavin. ✝️🙏. My son wants to go to Saint Martins University. Please pray for us.
Yes prayers! My daughter is a freshman at St Martin’s. I am also a widow. God bless you through these dark, profound, and precious times.
I attended St. Martin's when it was still a college. It's where I met the man I married.
Where is this? I think I missed something..!
Maristella Olympia, WA (Lacey area).
Did he get in?
FATHER!!!!!...........NOBODY HATES PIZZA 😂😤
Love ur vids father God bless u and everyone have a great day y'all😂❤
Seriously!
I was thinking that too, I was like "what did he just say?"
My brother does!! Refuses to eat it ever.
My son doesn't hate pizza, but it's never his preference (want to say there was a switching mix-up at the hospital when he was born). But I thoroughly enjoyed Father Mike's intro, because that scene he described was routinely us when we were out and looking for food. My son: I don't care, anything. My son's response to every suggestion: I don't want that.
Scented Farmer 🤣😂
Father Mike, THANK YOU for this video! I’m a recent convert (2 years ago, 4/1 was my Catholic birthday!) and come from a secular family, so I’ve been kind of on my own with studying and practicing my religion in general. Your videos have been a great help to me all throughout the process. I turned this on to help me focus before saying my nightly prayer, something I’ve been struggling with recently, and what you said in this video just completely, specifically clicked with what I’m struggling with right now. This was exactly what I needed to here and just gave me a major break through in my relationship with God. Thank you for all you do! (:
Message from the Lord: "He is not a God that abandons his people. It is not his nature, it is not his nature. He is ever present, ever present. God is our ever present help in time of trouble. Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. The only name by which people are saved. He cannot look at his people and look away. God will answer his people. He is their God. God is always present, do not forget that, child of God. It is not his nature to look away." 🙇♂️
Oh he definitely abandons people constantly, especially children caught up in sex trafficking around the world. religion is such bone cancer.
@Chosen Generation try having lived my life for the past twenty years and see if you feel the same way
@@Unclenate1000 Why are you here?
Instead of "I don't care" say "I don't have any good ideas right now" or even better, if you realized the mood you were in, "I honestly don't know if I feel like anything right now."
Yesterday I sent my small biography to a religious community that I want to join. This was perfect timing. Thanks Father.
Crocco1998
Did they let you join ?
Hope so as you are keen to join them.
So exciting!
Praying for you. And praying that I accepted you can join y their entrance day. When is their entrance day?
@Ellen C Thanks for your prayers.
@@Onlinesully It has been less than a week since I sent it. I am just peacefully waiting.
Great message. It all begins with accepting where we are and figuring out how we can use that to draw closer to God.
Wow, I feel like you described the video just perfectly in words! 🙌👏
God always finds a way to answer those doubts and questions through those who allow him to work through them. Thank you!!!
Amen
Laurie Alfaro
Oh right that's nice
Do you preach or something ?
That's true.
I realized now a true heartbreak I had 2 years ago and took this long to recover from was Gods way of showing me how to get thru it the right way thru him and not thru drinking or going out with others to numb the pain ...thank you Lord🙏
Father Mike you have so much positive energy,I enjoy watching your videos,I get Inspiration for life from your videos.God bless you
There was an old TV show called "Father Knows Best" staring Robert Young as the father. The children always had questions and conflicts. The father (Robert Young) never gave a easy to follow answer. There was a process, his children had to learn by doing. I think that a common story line in many 1950's and 1960's TV shows. You made me realize about that process going on between God and my life. Part of the process is hearing from Father Mike.
Also Ozzie and Harriet! Really wholesome lessons!
WOW! You hit the nail on the head. Yikes. Poor wording...🙏🏻❤️
I'm not catholic but am very religious in my own denomination and I love that the Lord inspires Fr. Mike to have a message that I most always needed
hey, have you ever considered becoming Catholic?
@@freddysime5853 I'm quite content with my denomination, but thanks
@@jansonmur4362 I hope that you will become interested in Church history, because it's important to God that we "be one, as He and the Father are One." And that He founded "His Church," not churches, and has only one Bride. Let the Holy Spirit guide you. God bless!🙏
@@wms72 I actually do believe that and have chosen to remain with my religion which believes God has restored His church and authority in this dispensation. But I dont want to get into the debate that almost inevitably follows when I state on a Christian page that I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Dat Saint
janson mur regardless of your denomination, thanks for taking an interest in watching this. We welcome you back
I've never heard this perspective before and it is exactly what I needed to hear. In 2018 I lost my mom to cancer, in 2019 I had to walk away from my "dream job" amidst depression and a toxic work environment, in 2020 my child was diagnosed with special needs. I work to trust God every single day and I fail more than I succeed...but this perspective is so inspiring and is helping me cope with the why's. Thank you.
Extremely difficult to accept when the life turn upside down
Wow just what I needed. I asked God make me love in the ways you do. Got my heart broken and now I'm growing in ways I've never loved myself or others before. At first it was hard, my hope and truth is that this has happened for me to grow and go to a place with God that I have never been to. Thank you for the reassurance and clarity Father Mike.
Am I the only one crying right now?
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What are you crying about ?
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What are you crying about ?
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what's the matter with you ?
a fast talking priest saying the process works
why would this be upsetting you
I watched the service you led last Sunday Father Mike, and it was beautiful and so peaceful ❤ I would like to ask though;
Before the virus started, I wanted to get baptised at my local church, but now I can't attend church. Is there a way to still be baptised, or will God understand why I'm not?
Where you to be baptized at a Catholic church? If so, at least in my parish, baptisms are suspended for now. However, if you are truly seeking baptism and are ready for it, if anything were to happen to you, you would receive what is called “baptism by desire.” This basically means that if you were to die, you would receive the graces of baptism through your active seeking of it. For now, I know it’s easier said than done but be patient. Trust Him. He has a plan! He is with you.
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Thank you so much for your response💖
Yes it was St Cuthberts (the church that belonged to my local primary school). However I didn't have an actual baptism booked with the church, but I did ask to have one. If so, how would I be able to ask about baptism through desire?
Please don't ever say that God does not understand. God knows ALL. He knows your situation and He knows your heart. Trust God to keep you close until the time you can get baptized.❤
@@rosieanderton5867 Call the rectory. The priest will be able to do individual baptisms. Keep it less than 10 people.
Rosie anderton You don’t ask about baptism by desire! All it basically means is that if you die un-baptized, you will receive the graces of baptism simply by your desire for it, so you don’t have to worry.
Until then, call up your parish priest and see if he can schedule an individual baptism. This may be different from diocese to diocese as mine as suspended all baptisms for now, but some are still doing individual ones with just family there. If your parish isn’t doing baptisms right now, be patient. God has a plan. And do not worry about it for now because if you were to die before being baptized, you will receive all the graces of baptism through baptism by desire. You can still seek Him out. I encourage you to pray a simple “Come Holy Spirit” and invite Him to dwell in you.
God has the most perfect timing!! I needed to hear this today 🙏🏼
Father Mike. The Lord has blessed you with such wisdom. Thank you for these insightful videos!
You're such a blessing, Father Mike! 🙏🙏🙏
The moment that what is said is so accurate and so good that you actually ugh in frustration at your screen. Sometimes it is hard to do this, but more notably, I find it hard to do this joyfully and with a heart full of love. Mama Mary wrap us in your mantle and comfort us.
Thank you so much Fr.Mike for your time, efforts, message in this video ^^ God bless all of humanity.
"The relationship people!?" Too funny! God Bless you, Fr. Mike.
I've had two awful, painful, brutal heartbreaks within the past year, but this process has brought me profoundly closer to God. Before, I would've said God hated me and was punishing me, but I've learned through the accidental discovery of Fr Mike's videos that's not the truth at all. God allowed me to suffer through these heartbreaks, so I could learn about His love for me and respond accordingly when He called me to Him. I no longer believe God hates me when I suffer; instead, I feel His love and try to understand what He is teaching me. Opening my heart this way has been life changing, and it makes this suffering less painful. It still hurts, but I feel I am loved throughout. And I know it's all in His plan, so I surrender over and over.
Thank you Ascension and Father Mike! You are doing God's work!
This is a really bad analogy, makes it seem like God is a manipulative person.
I don't get it, the process is too long, I never do it right. I'm tired of trying and failing.
We did that with our kids. We let them figure things our for themselves through trial and error because in life, they - now 19, 21, and 23 - are being rewarded with this ability. Great homily!
Will you please do a video on not comparing internet priests saying Mass right now. It's not part of the process....is it?
Love the broken heart part of the video ❤ not only does it speak to me because of the situation I am going thru but also because in general "He heals the brokenhearted..." is my favourite line of the Bible (Psalm 147:3).
Thank you Fr. Mike.
@Ana I've been BEGGING God to help me. And all I get is more pain. God is driving me away from him. Maybe he wants me to blow my brains out, and then punish me for it
Loved the analogy!!! I resonated with this message!!! Blessed .
Yup, that's basically what Eckhart Tolle said too, don't resist the experience, don't judge it but abandon yourself to it completely and you will be able to overcome it.
God is with us. That's something I'm just learning super painfully in the midst of it all but I get kinda excited, seeing where I'm going and looking forward to getting into that trust. What a challenge but what an immeasurable gift in the end! 🙏🏼🌟💜
I needed this so much today. I still don't understand but I need to trust
That's what happened in my life with marriage and everything else
I prayed and asked God for wisdom, knowledge, and development of my talents, skills, and intelligence....then God through fate and circumstances made me decide to stop schooling, have depression and anxiety and stay at home for years of fears and worries and sadness...but I learned many things new that I didn't learn in school and can't learn from books in school from people around me, from other people through digital and virtual means, from other books I never read before, from undergoing life, by staying with my family, by discovering new things I can do and capable of doing, by understanding my self more than ever....
I asked and pray to God to make me strong, brave, and more confident....then God through my life's journey let me have depression and anxiety, fears, worries, sadness, insomnias, stress, nightmares, and pains... but I learned to try to find new ways to stay hopeful amidst all those, and for me that's a form.of strength, bravery, and endurance..I also learned to try to build my confidence again everyday as everyday it breaks, so then everyday I rebuild it over and over....
I asked and prayed to God to have temperance and patience.....then God through my life got me into this mental, emtional, psychological, and spiritual journey for more than 5 years already without much changes and improvements....but I learned to wait, to trust, and to stay hopeful even the things happening to me and my life seem not to change that much, and even I had moments of improvement but then afterwards I fall again, fail again, and get stuck again in this cycle of sadness, anger, fears, sleepless nights, pains, moments of hopelessness and restlessness, and lack of confidence.
I prayed to God for abundance, prosperity, and wealth.....then God made me stayed at home with my family, not being able to have the confidence and grit to attend school again and do my life well which I am used to, and not having anymore the fame I had out of my schooling, talents, intelligence, and leadership...but I realized the wealth of my family and their love and support for me, the prosperity of isolation and taking good care of myself, the prosperity to have time to deal with my health, the abundance of important but commonly less noticed privileges and life that I have, the abundance of small and little things that sustains life and brings joy, and the wealth of having the ability to still use my talents, share my knowledge, inspire others, counsel others I can, lead some people, and learn new things even at home with less to no direct interpersonal contact to the public, other people, my community, and strangers.
I asked and prayed to God for freedom to be myself, to achieve my dreams and ambitions in life, to do and live the life that I want....then God allowed me to fell, to fail, to have these issues and problems, to isolate, and undergo this totally new, different, sad, painful, and hope-breaking journery...but I realized how still free I am despite of these, how free I am compared to other people in past and present, and how I still can live what I desire in simple ways.
I asked and prayed to God to allow His will to be done unto me if that's what it takes for me to live a better life, to glorify Him, and to be His instrument....then God sent me into this darkest path of my life and allowed me to undergo nightmares, doubts, fears, questions, denials, stress, isolation, hopelessness, weakness, restlessness, cowardice, limitations, mental and emotional health conditions, physical health conditions, thoughts of loosing hope, moments of discouraging my dreams and plans, moments of wanting to end my life, moments of fear of going to sleep because of nightmares and sleep paralysis but having moments too of not wanting to wake up and going on forever and in eternity deep in my goodnight sleep whenever I had one and not wanting to wake up to experience a routine of a cycle of my current situation over and over again...but I learned to still hope, rebuild my hope, to trust, and to rebuild my trust everyday and every time over and over again, and to keep myself and my existence despite all the physical, mental, emotional, psychological, moral, and spiritual challenges I am facing.
I don't know what am I here for in life, in Earth, and in this year of 2020...I don't know what will happen later, tomorrow, the next day after it, and in the future tomorrows that will come....I don't know where I am going, what should I do, how should I do, where should I go, who I shall need the most, who will I meet or meet again, and what will happen to me...I don't know if this is still God's will and plans that I shpuld still trust and go through despite the hard times, or is it the tricks of the enemies wanting me to fail and go on into cycle of this difficult moments until I loose my faith and hope, or is this my punishment, the consequences I need to undergo because of my sins and wickedness, of my evils and wrongdoings, of my religious and spiritual struggles....or is this a curse that someon put me into, or a curse I got into unintentionally...or is this my fault after all, the fruits of my daily bad choices and poor decisions, the consequences of my mind, the products of my past, and the results of my complains, laziness, pride, and inactions.....I don't know exactly.
Still, I undergo this path, this journey, these struggles, these challenges...and still trust and always try to keep a small flame of hope within me.
Sining Tadhana impressive long journey of battle against the odds.
May God listen to your cry of the heart & soon release you from the captivity of lies and deceit.
Dear sibling in Christ, never lose hope and know that God never fails to listen to His children. Just confide in Him, entrust Him everything in your life and let Him operate in you through His Holy Spirit. Don't despair, God ways are different from ours but definitely the Best! He is our Father so in an unmissable way He will provide all what our body and soul need. Be patient and learn from these ordeals . Never feel abandoned or loved less than others by Our Lord because He bestowes His Love and Mercy the Same way upon each and everyone , including those wicked and lost.
You are loved dear sibling , God is allowing you to carry a part of His Holy Cross by permitting you to experience tough moments during your journey here on Earth. You are being purified this way and drawn closer to God each time you realize and accept with patience and submission the suffering you have experienced and the one you are to undergo . Amen!
Praise God. May God bless you and keep on blessing you. In Jesus name.
God does not make bad things in your life to punish you. That is basically what the book of Job is about. I hope you get better man.
drServitis I will pray for you!
Very interesting point Father Mike. I have understood and appreciated it.
I could click that like button a million times more.. Thank you so much for that Fr.Mike. This was truly an eye opener...or rather a heart opener. God and his ways...👌🥰 I pray that the Lord give you all the strength you need in your mission for changing lives and good health to carry it out too. Much love from India.
I like this man , he knows how to explain the faith
We do need it! But it huuuuurts! I'm like those disciples who screamed for help during the storm. Jesus, we're drowning, save us!!!
Amen. So appropriate.for me now. Pls God give me the strength to carry my cross and know you are there with me. It shall be done on your time and not mine. Lord have mercy on me your daughter a sinner. Amen
Thank you Father 😘
Thank you so much Fr. Schmitz for this video!!
This helped me rekindle perseverence in my work and studies ;))
Thanks. You've explained a lot 🙏
This is shocking how suitable this message was for me to hear today. God Bless.
When God gives me the process directly ... via Mike, Gabe, or Raph, or even Metatron, I will believe the process... Otherwise it's flawed processes....
Thank you, Father for keeping it real and for sharing your insights and wisdom. Keep up the great work! 👏🏼
Nice. Thank you so much for this
Yeahh... now i know why israelites need 40 yrs to wander to know n trust in God's love..
Boy, but have I ever learned that this is SO true.
Father Mike...you have just described me down to a tee...Merci Father...Ave Maria ...⚜️🥀🙏
What a wonderful teaching! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thank you, Father Mike! God bless you enormously!
Perfect timing! Literally just did my last push to resist the process. I'm done resisting and giving it all to Him. I am ceasing trying to make it happen my own way and I feel scared yet free in a way. In prayer 💜🙏
In the body there's a division of free space where we liberate excess that division i never let go and sustud as the union point that identify s me as the creator point GOD SO WHAT I DID TO THE SPIRITUAL MASS AT THE START WAS MAKE UNION AND THAT UNION BROUGHT OUT FIRMLY ON MY IDENTITY WITH A SIMPLE UNION ON MY INTAMITE PARTS DIVISION.
I see your point about trying to figure out what God wants in our lives, but humans who do that are so manipulative.
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And proceed to all my rightful places on earth labor them and assist them and pronounce the historical change GOD TRUELY IN MY FIRST BODY.
Gods Way is Forgiveness. Jesus Said..”Forgive and you Shall be Forgiven.” “Do not Forgive and you Shall not be Forgiven.” We bring our own calamities by breaking Gods Commandments and not Forgiving others. The virus is God. He is Tired of our Pride and our Love of Money and Everything but Him.
I'm a slow learner. After 44 years of wedded bliss, I have come to the conclusion that, "what do you want for supper?" translates in wife speak to, take me out to eat somewhere...Duh. Silly me....Thank you, Father Mike;
Why would God make a woman beautiful - but then kept her isolated with no partner,friends or even prospects..??? That’s not very nice you know 😒
Fr. Mike, Are you a basketball fan? For many years, the Philadelphia ‘76ers their fans to, “Trust the process.” Hopefully, this phrase works better in the Divine economy than it has in the NBA!
this is so spot on Fr. Mike. thank you for the message
Father Mike I love your messages. I wish you speak slowly. I have to slow to understand you. I am Colombian but I enjoy your messages
The man born blind in John 9:3 suffered a lot in his life, even though he and his parents hadn't done anything wrong. But Jesus brought good out of it and healed him. It's tempting to think "God is punishing me" and I'll admit I've felt that way a lot before, but that's not how God works. Original Sin opened the door to suffering, but God doesn't say, "you cheated on the test or you had an affair and so you're going to get the flu now". God allows bad things to happen which don't make sense to us and maybe never will... but He will bring good out of those sufferings. He always does.
Fr Mike - This is awesome. But I admit it can be a bit challenging to wrap our heads around this approach. As a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd catechist, I'm struck by how similar this is to the Montessori-based approach we have found to be most successful for helping our children grow in faith. Just giving a child the answer might feel helpful to them in the moment, but being willing to go on the journey and guide them on the journey of discovering the answer is when we see the child really grow. This frequently means you have to watch the child try something you know will fail to help really teach them a better way. Hope this helps people who wonder why God would choose such a frustrating process for us to learn. I'm convinced it's because He is our loving Father and this really is the best way for us to learn. HTH. Be well and God bless!
“In the face of God's obvious inadequacies, the pious have generally held that one cannot apply earthly norms to the Creator of the universe. This argument loses its force the moment we notice that the Creator who purports to be beyond human judgment is consistently ruled by human passions- jealousy, wrath, suspicion, and the lust to dominate. A close study of our holy books reveals that the God of Abraham is a ridiculous fellow-capricious, petulant, and cruel-and one with whom a covenant is little guarantee of health or happiness. If these are the characteristics of God, then the worst among us have been created far more in his image than we ever could have hoped.”
-Sam Harris
What part of, "I am the way..." Made you thing God has ways? Not only is there ONE way only but also he himself is the way. Maybe its cause your catholic you can't actually follow the scriptures or read them correctly.
I need the process to end, I've worked my whole life, developed schizophrenia now taking meds and working again but I'm now 42 living at my mother's house, I have 1 child which is a teenager who I never get to talk to, I'm scraping by pay check to pay check, while all my other cousins have houses and children and muscle cars and I can see business opportunities that I want to get into but everytime I attempt to save to get into them a new bill turns up and it seems I'm just stuck in this same position over and over it's crisis after crises and I just want to grow and flourish but I just can't.
I am not Catholic, but am really enjoying videos from all Ascension speakers. Learning about the church. One question I have not seen is regarding a Christian lifestyle. The bible teaches to share all you have; take care of the poor and needy. Most religious take a vow of poverty. So how is it a Christian value for the pope to live in a palace and the Church to amass an obscene amount of Wealth?
What. What process are you even talking about? Is God about to buy me McDonald's?
Recognizing the supremacy of God, so the principles won't be used against us and we don't willingly or unwillingly test God
First comment !! Fr Mike’s videos are amazing
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I needed to hear that!!!!!!
I don't understand why he is so scared to give examples of this "process." Like is there any particular reason that he has to be so vague. He goes on and on about this "process" with hardly any explanation as to what it is. What is God wanting me to choose? Who tf is Jack?
June 18, 2022
Tell me what you want. Yep!
Process actually works.
Gods plan > our plan
WOW. Thank you 🙏🏻
What this does is wakes my spiritualization system that needs to be spiritualized because I am God and everything is presise i wasnt going to let any other segregated identity of mine be me presisely. yes it's me GOD I'm in process of documentation by the law and lawyers.
Fr Mike! Please pray for me and my exboyfriend. (Carol and Tony.) Of course my heart is naturally sad. I pray that our paths will meet again and we can have a relationship that leads to marriage. I understand that the goal of a couple is to help the other person to get to heaven. I was not doing well mentally and that is why he left me. He said he had no peace in is heart. He said he would always pray for me and than hung up the phone. Pray that I get well and that my ex gets well too. All I have is hope!
Hello father Mike! Is watching horror movies bad? Or is there any adverse effects of watching it? Ive been a watcher of horror movies and I dont get scared that easily I even watch with my lights off and close doors so I could feel it but these days Ive been so vaguely scared and sometimes I feel like someones watching me or in rare cases I hear voices calling my name. I really cant ask my mom about this and I have no one to ask. Thank you in advance.
You should be an actor...god way is not human way..but we are told to imitate christ..any explaination?.
First of all God does not (lead) you any where, he has given us a free will. Secondly only the devil can lead you to evil so when you pray to the lord say take us not to the test. The prayer of our lord has unfortunately been twisted to end praying to the devil. We should refrain from saying the wrong words. The word is very important. I would to here your comments.
this year i got engaged already was living with my son's dad i had an anulment but he was divorced legally never got married in church i did... so since march of 2020 i had a spiritual calk from God and so my process has been long and painfull. I wanted to recieve confession and communion so I had to make a big sad decision not to be sleeping with my fiance note he is nit catholic so it has been hard for him to understand me but he agrees to marry me in the catholic church our process is long and this poor man sometimes says he is going to end up hating me because its been around 8 months like this and so far the archdiosis hasn't clarify us if we are aloud to get married. ive been living with him 10 years sinfuly so this is taking a big tote on us in the relationship... we both agree thar if they ask for another document than we just going to split because that is God saying no to the marriage... it hurts ne and it pains me i can't even bring myself to kiss him because i feel that is sin too... i was aloud to confess and recieve the body of christ while we wait... God's plans are different from ours
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! It happens to me all the time 😅. Thank you Father.
Same😅 I was like bruh, why do you keep closing all these doors I try to walk into?🤔 Now I understood the assignment😂 He did finally open one door 🚪. I know! He opened it because He's closed every other single door😅 Freedom is not doing what I want, it's freedom from sin and from walking down the wrong paths; the freedom to do His divine Will. It's impossible to walk into His Will for our lives while we are still enslaved to sin. Therefore He transforms us in the process until we are shaped into what is needed to accomplish His Will for us; which His plan of goodness for us and of great fulfillment. So much wisdom I kept asking why a long time too until... He explained to me a thing or two about Wisdom...Thank you Lord for showing me the way you have planed for me, even though the process is difficult, you've proven to be along my side and that I just need to keep riding the ride. Thank you for being the good Sheppard. Indeed, He has a specific plan for each one of us. Glory be to God! Our tests will soon become our testimonies🙏🎁❤️😎💪
Jesus said call No man Father on earth more falsehood and disobedience. Mary is not the mediator teachings falseworship not in the Bible.
How do i properly handle all the anti-catholic people i encounter on a daily basis? i don’t want to be rude it’s just so frustrating that people feel like need to be rude about my faith. i really don’t know how to take it anymore
This really hits home. As a catechumen, I got so upset that, after waiting for so long to get baptized, the Easter batch of baptism has to be postponed due to COVID-19 plague. I thought, God, if You really want me to get closer to You, why won't You let me get baptized soon? Why do I have to stay home and follow mass at home for a month and a few weeks?
Today is my last day of novena. I pray so Easter wouldn't get cancelled (eventho it's already cancelled in my diocese) and then this video pops up. I guess this completes the answer to my prayer (which the answer is no). Now I understand. Maybe it's the final test of my three years of journey to be officially the daughter of God. Maybe it's the final part of the long process. And after looking back, you're right. It's a long rocky road to reach this point for me but He's always been with me... I mean, I would've not survived if He wasn't there. I feel so loved.
Anisa Indira beautiful testimony, thanks for sharing. God bless ❤️
Powerful message! Thank you father mike. This is exactly what I needed to hear during these times. ❤️
I noticed the way Father Mike's voice changes a little when he speaks in God's position; just little slower and a little quieter. Thank you for sharing this message Father!
Father I just finished day 281 please take your days of rest so you can do your work for a lot longer❤
Is there a way to convince God to change our life, our vocation and state in life? Anything is almost better than a nothing life. 😬😥
We have no evidence that the process is even the process. Non-Christians believe their suffering has so much spiritual meaning as well.
It’s not that one party is saying ‘you be free to choose and let me be free to choose to shoot it down’. It’s more one party does not want the responsibility of making the choice and having the other person bear the responsibility to which the other person just makes a show of deferring to. If a choice turns out to be wrong, then that person who refused to make a choice can now claim to be free of making the wrong choice and can now fully blame the other person.
I really feel like He's not doing a good job right now, as I try to find the silver linings, and all I find is hopelessness and disappointment
Could someone help me please 🙏 should Catholic listen 👂 to subliminal messages thanks in advance
I'm born with birth diffrences that identify me God mostly everyone is born equally and the bodies that differentiate are the ones that are looked at and investigated but the true one is the one that makes click in the universal system my true identity
How do you KNOW you're doing the process God chooses for us?.... 😵
Thank you, man. It's the thing i needed to hear in this moment! 🙏
Saint Matthew 24:13
But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Hey , im a catholic and alot of people have been telling me that Mary didnt live a sinless life now im starting to doubht
Wow! So true! No one likes To suffer thats why.! True need To surender it makes life easier thats for sure.