Thank you so much for the gift of the Virtual Front Pew - and thank you, Fr. Mike and all those who make it possible for us to have an online Mass. I’m still isolating in 2024. I was also so moved to see the young woman wearing a veil and modestly dressed. It is something I don’t often see. The last time was when I was a child. May God bless you, each one. 🙏🏻💜
I pray for a complete recovery for my 18 year son that sustained a terrible accident injuring his spinal cord. Please God heal him and give him strength and fill recovery for him to be back on being himself. Please God
Father God Almighty ,please lay your loving hands on my fiance Jerry on recovery at hospital in Turkey after hip replacement surgery since car accident happens last May 23 on his way at the airport , grant him mercy, and take away his pain with your healing power. Almighty God, I cast my cares onto you as I commanded in 1 Peter 5:7. In the name of Jesus, please grant my healing prayer and my fiance coming soon safe travels on his USA homecoming in Jesus name I pray Amen." 🙏
Please Lord Jesus ,I pray for Jerry that he will be healed and come back to U.S safely ,and I ask mother Mary to pray for him and ask the Lord for healing …we ask this prayer in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit …Amen
Por favor, padre, concédele la pronta recuperación a Jerry. Por favor bendicelo a él y a su prometida, amén. Gracias, padre. (Hope it helps, i have to learn to pray!)
At this time as I listen to this message, christ has a purpose, use it, what I am going through use it, as I go through my seizures I give it to you. The day I have been given to become like him.
I pray that I am able to find a good paying new job. I struggle with depression. I have come back to god this year, but I just pray that God opens a new a door this year. I am grateful for all that god has given me and I won’t give up for I know it is in God’s hands.
in the gospel of Luke, it mentions that a little boy in the group had five barley loaves and two fish. He brought his bread and fish and gave them to Jesus. Jesus took that small gift of five loaves of bread and two fish and he multiplied it by five thousand. the real miracle was not the multiplication of loaves, but the act of caring. Jesus was able to convince selfish people to share: the real miracle. ❤ Welcome home! Peace be with you ❤
Thank you for this beautiful mass as always and especially your homily. You consistently inspire me with your words. I always listen a second time to your homily on Hallow while I do my morning walks. Know you have touched this simple lady's heart.
God bless you for this transmission, i am currently in a country with almost no catholic churches and the internet is the only way i can get access to Holy Mass.❤
I don't know Fr. Josh, but God bless him and all graduating Seminarians who will become Priests. God bless their first Masses, their first blessings, their first assignments. Keep the Holy Roman Catholic Church in Your Loving Hands, Lord. Amen.
Fr. Mike, God uses you to speak to us every week when we join you for Mass. Thank you so much for the work you do building up the Body of Christ! God bless! You are in our prayers.
I surrender and pray that my obedience and increase so that I can decrease so that Abba may increase and shine in my heart soul and mind. Thy will be done.
I randomly wrote down "Green means go" on a box the other day. I don't remember where I had heard it or why I wrote it. But today, Father Mike you have let me know. 💙🙏🏻
I just moved and was worried about 10,000 things on top of how I would get to mass this morning. Watching this made me feel lighter and like the things I was worrying about seem so small now. Thank you!
Thank you, Father Mike, for all your podcasts ( Bible ( completed) and Catechism 160 days) in a year ) and services. I am slowly coming back to the catholic church after many years.
Thank you, dear Father, for your many blessings. Please help me to be satisfied and generous with the blessings you have already given me. Please help me keep my focus on you and your Son and allow you to make me a conduit of your blessings to others! I pray in the name of your Son and my Savior, Jesus. Amen. 🙏
Dear Heavenly Father, As we embark on this new week, we seek your wisdom and guidance. Help us to make wise decisions, to treat others with kindness and compassion, and to always act in accordance with your will. Lead us down the path of righteousness and help us to be a beacon of your light in the world. In Jesus' name, Amen. 🙏
Amen. I know Jesus will answer my prayers. I will not lose hope even as I struggle as a single mother. Both of my sons are special needs children. They require so much from me yet I know I AM BLESSED to be their mother. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle with rent and as I struggle to provide groceries for my children. I feel so alone and discouraged so Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time.❤️
I know your prayers will be answered I too was in your shoes my Lord provided for me and my children he will do the same for you, stay strong and keep the faith please don't let go.
For my third son Zane on his birthday tomorrow, for his conversion, that he may find his purpose 🙏 Help the rest of our family do the same and find a home 🙏
Fr Mike spoke of Purgatory and it reminded me of a quote that I recently read: "If you really think you can endure and enjoy the full light and fire of God a second after you die, being essentially the same kind of being you are now, without any additional divine operation on your soul, then you dangerously underestimate either your sinful nature or God's holiness or the gap between them."
The veil is beautiful. I wear one every weekend to mass, and if I am lucky to get during the week, I am so thrilled to see someone so young, showing the respect and dignity to the Lord and to the holy mother. You truly carry the Lord and his message in your heart. May you have a very beautiful and blessed day
The purpose of the veil is old-school to start with probably until 1970 maybe a little later no woman would ever go to church without having her head covered, generally speaking you never saw anyone with their arms exposed. It was considered disrespectful if women did that obviously things have changed over the last 50 years. I wear my veil as a sign of respect to our mother Mary. I have a girlfriend who used to say that her grandmother said as long as Mary’s head is covered. Mine will be too if something that’s just come back from our childhood I mean, I can tell you there were times when I went into mass with a, Bobby pen and one of Mom’s handkerchiefs on my head. It’s just a lovely tradition, not required and done only out of giving heart. I have several. I usually wear my white one and I will tell you that the church that I attend is old and believe me I have been in there with no sleeves however I make sure I wear my long white veil so my arms are covered when I go up to receive, that’s probably more information than you wanted, but that’s pretty much the answer. May you have a blessed week. Regards, Barbara.
I ask God to have mercy on my Mama Chelo with her pain and the conversation of my younger sister. I ask for almighty God to guide my mother and to guide me.
Thank you Father Mike for being a faithful instrument of our Lord for all of us. Every Sunday I try to listen to the Holy Spirit through your homily, and pin point that which He wants me to work on this week. 5 am in Guatemala, every Sunday, I meet with Him through you. Bless you Father Mike. I pray for you, and today also for Frm Josh.
Ofrezco esta Santa Misa, por intercesión de Nuestra Madre María, por las almas del purgatorio, las personas presas y los enfermos. Agradezco todas las bendiciones recibidas por todos. Pido por la paz mundial, la paz en los corazones, la salud física y mental, y las familias. Amén 💙
"Love always involves sacrifice," Fr. Mike says. Amen, alleluia! Even though I got tongue cancer at 26, I've been blessed to serve the Lord for another 35 years. I've been told I'm an inspiration. I pay it forward by praying for people to survive and thrive after cancer, if it is God's will. I also pray you raise the funds to build a beautiful Catholic chapel such as the one I was blessed to have at USF Tampa 40-plus years ago. So important for the students, faculty and staff. May the Lord assist you in this vital project. In Jesus' name we pray, amen! Alleluia.
Please, pray for me. I will go on surgery soon so that I can walk again (hope to walk normally again). I am bedridden now, but hope this changes soon. Thanks 💗
An important message about our life's purpose. Also, kudos to Fr. Josh and the Pew! The world was created for us by God so that we can work here and for God's will so that we can be like God (no sins and full of love)! Afterlife! The broken world is still full of God's grace and mercy. We obtain love through sacrifice and pain of life. St. Paul is right, we are not discouraged but helps us to be stronger and wiser. If Jesus went through so much pain for us, if St. Paul went through such a pain for evangelism, how can we say that our sorrows and problems are big? Momentary pain can lead us to have a heart like Jesus. The broken world is still at the service of God's Will. We must indeed let God use our pain and setbacks to make us better and like God. We must say "Use it God" whenever we are in the midst of a challenge. Joy of purgatory is that we receive pain and challenges as opportunities to get closer to God and turn away from sins. Whatever given to God is never wasted! Thank you Fr. Mike, the Front Pew and Team Ascension
Amen. Thank you Father for this message. Help me Lord to stand firm in my difficulties. Help me to experience joy in my pain and to give it all to you.🙏
To this day, I remember the words of my fifth grade teacher so we’re talking 1967 who loved me dearly and he was a missionary every summer, and then came back and taught this grade. One day new young man came into our class, and Mr. Floyd happened to catch my eye looking at him. He was a handsome young man, and he said Barbwire, which is what he called me ever since Eve at the apple girls have been getting boys into trouble. He said it was all of the kindness and sweetness in the world that he had for me and I have never forgotten it, and although today’s reading is incredibly important and serious. I hear the words of Glenn Floyd in the back of my head reminding me of the day I caught a good looking young man’s eye, not religious at all but I thought you might appreciate it.
Southeastern Texas: USA 🇺🇸: btw: praying 🙏 in earnest for missionary priests ( Roman Catholic) : btw: who serve in or near County Maverick ( San Antonio): heal
Greetings Father Mike, Key Thoughts :- -> Sunday Homily reflect with, "The Core Essence of Spiritual Integration with Lord Jesus Christ in every moment of Our Life in every sense in all aspects." Special Mention :- -> Kindly keep in Prayers for Our Former Deputy Parish Priest Fr.Anthony for his Church Ministries in Our Diocese who showed keen interest with Positive encouragement towards Ascension Channel. -> Best wishes and Prayers for Newly ordinated Fr.Josh. With regards and Prayers, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)
Thank you Father. I've learned more again today
Congratulations FatherJosh, blessings
❤ Praise Jesus! ❤
Thank you so much for the gift of the Virtual Front Pew - and thank you, Fr. Mike and all those who make it possible for us to have an online Mass. I’m still isolating in 2024.
I was also so moved to see the young woman wearing a veil and modestly dressed. It is something I don’t often see. The last time was when I was a child.
May God bless you, each one. 🙏🏻💜
Great sermon
I offer this mass for my friend who will be having surgery soon. 🙏Thank you Father Mike for an inspiring homily.
Thank you Heavenly Father ❤
Amen. Beautiful, and so resonate. Thank you Fr.
"Give it to God and it won't be wasted."
Lord Jesus, please reduce my pain and let me walk without so much pain again, if it be your Holy will.
I pray for a complete recovery for my 18 year son that sustained a terrible accident injuring his spinal cord. Please God heal him and give him strength and fill recovery for him to be back on being himself. Please God
Praying for you. God bless you.
Prayers
Father God Almighty ,please lay your loving hands on my fiance Jerry on recovery at hospital in Turkey after hip replacement surgery since car accident happens last May 23 on his way at the airport , grant him mercy, and take away his pain with your healing power. Almighty God, I cast my cares onto you as I commanded in 1 Peter 5:7. In the name of Jesus, please grant my healing prayer and my fiance coming soon safe travels on his USA homecoming in Jesus name I pray Amen." 🙏
God will heal him have faith 🕊️✝️
Please Lord Jesus ,I pray for Jerry that he will be healed and come back to U.S safely ,and I ask mother Mary to pray for him and ask the Lord for healing …we ask this prayer in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit …Amen
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Amen
Por favor, padre, concédele la pronta recuperación a Jerry. Por favor bendicelo a él y a su prometida, amén. Gracias, padre.
(Hope it helps, i have to learn to pray!)
At this time as I listen to this message, christ has a purpose, use it, what I am going through use it, as I go through my seizures I give it to you. The day I have been given to become like him.
Father Mike Thank you for your beautiful Homily! ❤
Agree❤
Thanks!
I pray that I am able to find a good paying new job. I struggle with depression. I have come back to god this year, but I just pray that God opens a new a door this year. I am grateful for all that god has given me and I won’t give up for I know it is in God’s hands.
in the gospel of Luke, it mentions that a little boy in the group had five barley loaves and two fish. He brought his bread and fish and gave them to Jesus. Jesus took that small gift of five loaves of bread and two fish and he multiplied it by five thousand.
the real miracle was not the multiplication of loaves, but the act of caring. Jesus was able to convince selfish people to share: the real miracle.
❤ Welcome home! Peace be with you ❤
Thank you for this beautiful mass as always and especially your homily. You consistently inspire me with your words. I always listen a second time to your homily on Hallow while I do my morning walks. Know you have touched this simple lady's heart.
God bless you for this transmission, i am currently in a country with almost no catholic churches and the internet is the only way i can get access to Holy Mass.❤
Thank you, Fr Mike for being a breath of fresh air in the church. For your attempts to make its message relevant.
Thanks
I don't know Fr. Josh, but God bless him and all graduating Seminarians who will become Priests. God bless their first Masses, their first blessings, their first assignments. Keep the Holy Roman Catholic Church in Your Loving Hands, Lord. Amen.
I offer this Mass up for all my Deceased family members and friends. Lord have Mercy on their Souls Amen 🙏
Amen
Fr. Mike, God uses you to speak to us every week when we join you for Mass. Thank you so much for the work you do building up the Body of Christ! God bless! You are in our prayers.
I pray for forgiveness. I have tried to lead a holy life but have slipped into sin. Dear god for give me
He does! You are a new creation in Christ. Walk in freedom
God bless you Fr. Mikey man ! You are precious. I called my late husband Mikey man … just sticks .
I surrender and pray that my obedience and increase so that I can decrease so that Abba may increase and shine in my heart soul and mind. Thy will be done.
Thank you Father for the Mass.
I randomly wrote down "Green means go" on a box the other day. I don't remember where I had heard it or why I wrote it. But today, Father Mike you have let me know. 💙🙏🏻
Thank you Fr. Schmidt for your wonderful homily today. Blessings to you
Thank you Lord for healing my wife after her fall.
I just moved and was worried about 10,000 things on top of how I would get to mass this morning. Watching this made me feel lighter and like the things I was worrying about seem so small now. Thank you!
What a wonderful homily, Father Mike. Thank you for always going above and beyond in your preparation each week, to spread the word of God ❤
Please protect my sons and keep them under your arms. Guide them to see your goodness and love for them and the world.
Thank you Fr. Schmitz. Your homilies always pulls on my heart strings that I like to share with everyone .
Jesus loves you
Thank you. Peace 😊
Father Mike, thank you for your teachings. Very grateful from Villavicencio, Colombia. God bless.
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: apostle of Divine Mercy: Intercede for us
Thank you Fr. Mike for the beautiful mass please pray for me a sinner.
7:15 Thanks be to GOD
Thank you dear Father Mike , Lord Jesus Christ be with you ..we pray this in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit ..Amen
🙏 I’m one with god.
Glory to lord Jesus Christ. Have mercy on all of us:)
Thank you, Father Mike, for all your podcasts ( Bible ( completed) and Catechism 160 days) in a year ) and services. I am slowly coming back to the catholic church after many years.
Welcome back. God bless you.
Beautiful mass Father. So thankful. God bless. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, dear Father, for your many blessings. Please help me to be satisfied and generous with the blessings you have already given me. Please help me keep my focus on you and your Son and allow you to make me a conduit of your blessings to others! I pray in the name of your Son and my Savior, Jesus. Amen. 🙏
thank you Father Mike for your efforts and work for the church! Beautiful mass and homily!
God bless you Father Mike. Have a blessed Sunday!
Deep praise and thaknksgiving to our Lord for a new job offer. I am so grateful!
Dear Heavenly Father,
As we embark on this new week, we seek your wisdom and guidance. Help us to make wise decisions, to treat others with kindness and compassion, and to always act in accordance with your will. Lead us down the path of righteousness and help us to be a beacon of your light in the world.
In Jesus' name, Amen. 🙏
Thank you father for this beautiful Sunday mass.
Amen. I know Jesus will answer my prayers. I will not lose hope even as I struggle as a single mother. Both of my sons are special needs children. They require so much from me yet I know I AM BLESSED to be their mother. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle with rent and as I struggle to provide groceries for my children. I feel so alone and discouraged so Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time.❤️
God Bless you sweetheart. The Lord hears you! Be strong, you are a great mother.
Praying for you. God bless you.
I know your prayers will be answered I too was in your shoes my Lord provided for me and my children he will do the same for you, stay strong and keep the faith please don't let go.
May God bless your prayers 🙏🏻📿🙏🏻
For my third son Zane on his birthday tomorrow, for his conversion, that he may find his purpose 🙏 Help the rest of our family do the same and find a home 🙏
Fr Mike spoke of Purgatory and it reminded me of a quote that I recently read: "If you really think you can endure and enjoy the full light and fire of God a second after you die, being essentially the same kind of being you are now, without any additional divine operation on your soul, then you dangerously underestimate either your sinful nature or God's holiness or the gap between them."
❤ Amen ❤
R./ Lord I am not worthy that YOU should enter under my roof but only say the word and my soul shall be healed
Thank you Fr. Mike for touching into the deepest recesses of our soul on how to live this life for the Lord. May God bless you even more. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you, everyone involved in this transmission!
I have purchased both the catechism and bible from Ascension. I pray for understanding communion with THE WORD
Father Mike thank you for serving our Lord I wish you would shave shave
JESUS I TRUST IN YOU
God be with you all
That hit home today Fr. Mike..thank you Father, have a blessed Sunday
The veil is beautiful. I wear one every weekend to mass, and if I am lucky to get during the week, I am so thrilled to see someone so young, showing the respect and dignity to the Lord and to the holy mother. You truly carry the Lord and his message in your heart. May you have a very beautiful and blessed day
What is the purpose of the veil? Ty for clarification. Protestant here.
The purpose of the veil is old-school to start with probably until 1970 maybe a little later no woman would ever go to church without having her head covered, generally speaking you never saw anyone with their arms exposed. It was considered disrespectful if women did that obviously things have changed over the last 50 years. I wear my veil as a sign of respect to our mother Mary. I have a girlfriend who used to say that her grandmother said as long as Mary’s head is covered. Mine will be too if something that’s just come back from our childhood I mean, I can tell you there were times when I went into mass with a, Bobby pen and one of Mom’s handkerchiefs on my head. It’s just a lovely tradition, not required and done only out of giving heart. I have several. I usually wear my white one and I will tell you that the church that I attend is old and believe me I have been in there with no sleeves however I make sure I wear my long white veil so my arms are covered when I go up to receive, that’s probably more information than you wanted, but that’s pretty much the answer. May you have a blessed week. Regards, Barbara.
Amen and Amen 🙏 thank you for the beautiful humbly love it because you always have the best ❤
I ask God to have mercy on my Mama Chelo with her pain and the conversation of my younger sister. I ask for almighty God to guide my mother and to guide me.
God bless you 🙏
God is our rock ❤
Great vid Father Mike
❤️🔥
Thank you Father Mike for being a faithful instrument of our Lord for all of us. Every Sunday I try to listen to the Holy Spirit through your homily, and pin point that which He wants me to work on this week. 5 am in Guatemala, every Sunday, I meet with Him through you. Bless you Father Mike. I pray for you, and today also for Frm Josh.
Ofrezco esta Santa Misa, por intercesión de Nuestra Madre María, por las almas del purgatorio, las personas presas y los enfermos. Agradezco todas las bendiciones recibidas por todos. Pido por la paz mundial, la paz en los corazones, la salud física y mental, y las familias. Amén 💙
Dear Father Mike, I just watched this homily through Ascension - this is SO POWERFUL ❤ Thank you 🤍
Woah. I've never been up this early to watch this live. Much love from Fresno CA. Pacific time!
Praise be Jesus. Thank you Lord for Fr. Mike.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Anxiously, gratefully and Joyfully waiting for this Mass … ❤
here while visiting in the mountains in Norway …
"Love always involves sacrifice," Fr. Mike says. Amen, alleluia! Even though I got tongue cancer at 26, I've been blessed to serve the Lord for another 35 years. I've been told I'm an inspiration. I pay it forward by praying for people to survive and thrive after cancer, if it is God's will. I also pray you raise the funds to build a beautiful Catholic chapel such as the one I was blessed to have at USF Tampa 40-plus years ago. So important for the students, faculty and staff. May the Lord assist you in this vital project. In Jesus' name we pray, amen! Alleluia.
Great homily, it really hits home. Thank you Fr. Mike.
Please, pray for me. I will go on surgery soon so that I can walk again (hope to walk normally again). I am bedridden now, but hope this changes soon. Thanks 💗
An important message about our life's purpose. Also, kudos to Fr. Josh and the Pew! The world was created for us by God so that we can work here and for God's will so that we can be like God (no sins and full of love)! Afterlife! The broken world is still full of God's grace and mercy. We obtain love through sacrifice and pain of life. St. Paul is right, we are not discouraged but helps us to be stronger and wiser. If Jesus went through so much pain for us, if St. Paul went through such a pain for evangelism, how can we say that our sorrows and problems are big? Momentary pain can lead us to have a heart like Jesus. The broken world is still at the service of God's Will. We must indeed let God use our pain and setbacks to make us better and like God. We must say "Use it God" whenever we are in the midst of a challenge. Joy of purgatory is that we receive pain and challenges as opportunities to get closer to God and turn away from sins. Whatever given to God is never wasted! Thank you Fr. Mike, the Front Pew and Team Ascension
Amen. Thank you Father for this message. Help me Lord to stand firm in my difficulties. Help me to experience joy in my pain and to give it all to you.🙏
May many blessings be on Fr Josh, and Fr Mike this glorious day. God bless. Claire.
❤🙏❤
Thank you for a calming mass and heartfelt sermon❤
Amen 🙏 Thank you Father Mike.
Good Morning to all from la. Puente California
I used to live in Hacienda Heights!
To this day, I remember the words of my fifth grade teacher so we’re talking 1967 who loved me dearly and he was a missionary every summer, and then came back and taught this grade. One day new young man came into our class, and Mr. Floyd happened to catch my eye looking at him. He was a handsome young man, and he said Barbwire, which is what he called me ever since Eve at the apple girls have been getting boys into trouble. He said it was all of the kindness and sweetness in the world that he had for me and I have never forgotten it, and although today’s reading is incredibly important and serious. I hear the words of Glenn Floyd in the back of my head reminding me of the day I caught a good looking young man’s eye, not religious at all but I thought you might appreciate it.
Father, please slow down just a little that us elderly worshippers may hear every word . Thank you Heavenly Father for helping us. Amen
Congratulations to Father Josh
🙏❤️🙏
Thank YOU!❤
❤It was tough to understand 🧠
Southeastern Texas: USA 🇺🇸: btw: praying 🙏 in earnest for missionary priests ( Roman Catholic) : btw: who serve in or near County Maverick ( San Antonio): heal
R./ Thanks 🙏 be to GOD
R./ may The Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of HIS NAME for our good and for the good of HIS HOLY CHURCH
Please pray for Jane Sherman
Buenos Dias de le Dios Father Mike from Espanola New Mexico
R./ Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ
Jeuss loves you and is with you
Please Pray For Bryan LaHaise
R./ Blessed 😇 be GOD forever
R./,Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy
Please pray for Kathy Silvers and Rose Sbrocchi
Greetings Father Mike,
Key Thoughts :-
-> Sunday Homily reflect with, "The Core Essence of Spiritual Integration with Lord Jesus Christ in every moment of Our Life in every sense in all aspects."
Special Mention :-
-> Kindly keep in Prayers for Our Former Deputy Parish Priest Fr.Anthony for his Church Ministries in Our Diocese who showed keen interest with Positive encouragement towards Ascension Channel.
-> Best wishes and Prayers for Newly ordinated Fr.Josh.
With regards and Prayers,
Ranjith Joseph (R.J)