"Three Sadnesses of Holy Thursday" | Holy Thursday (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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- Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
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We all have unique sadnesses. Jesus enters into all of them.
Holy Thursday is a day that marks the gift of the Priesthood, the Eucharist, Christ's humble service, and the beginning of the Triduum. Today, we reflect on Peter, Judas, and Jesus in their unique sadnesses.
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If only I would never sin anymore after hearing this homily! Lord, have mercy!😔🙏🏽
I’m Russian orthodox but this really helped me this Holy Thursday I was going through a really rough time
We thank God for your priesthood Father !
This really resonated with me as I’ve been really down and sad because of the stress from my job. Thanks Father Mike 🙏🏽
Prayers!!!
Turn to the Lord for comfort. I feel sad and anxious also for my family and I close my eyes to focus on the face of Jesus saying ‘Be still fir I am God’. 🙏🏻
And I am very sad and heartbroken. Will never being able to have a conversation with my mother that last more than 15 minutes when we don’t wanna kill each other. She’s 86 she’s not gonna be here forever I wish we could get along. We haven’t gotten along my whole life, I’ve tried my hardest. I pray that someday before she goes, she’ll see me in a better light.
We are unstoppable with the power of Christ. Satan get thee behind me in Jesus name you have caused too much pain in this world and in my life! 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. So as I struggle with rent and as I struggle provide for my children. I PRAISE GOD. I know a blessing is on the way.
Thank you Father for delivering such a beautiful homily. I know many can empathize with this sadness as I myself am battling a debilitating illness that has affected my quality of life. It's comforting to know that God has allowed this season of isolation for a reason, and I understand the importance of surrendering to His will. However, there are moments when I feel overwhelmed with sadness, as if I have been abandoned and lonely which leads me to isolate in every aspect even from the Lord. In those times, I struggle to see the light in it all but know deep down that Jesus understands our suffering and has undergone the depth of it all so we will not be alone in our struggles. Yet, there are days when the darkness and sadness seem to consume me, and I also realize my own weakness. During this Holy Triduum, thank you for reminding me to walk this journey with the Lord, knowing that He is by my side.🙏
I’m so sorry. I prayed for you. May you feel the peace at Grace to carry this cross
I have heard MANY sermons on Holy Thursday, but this was the best one I've ever heard!!
May Our Lord Bless Father Mike in a unique and special way this Easter....as he brings each of us so much closer to Jesus....he speaks to us where we listen and hear!
Fr.Mike ...Your homilies are valuable...You are the best. God bless you abundantly 🙏
Lord Jesus I lift up my nephew Clemence who is having a desert experience now
Yes ,
Our deeply disappoiinting weakness.
Trusting that God loves us anyway ?
It's deeply humbling .
Without His grace ,
utter fail .
Thank you , Lord .
Thank you ,
Father Mike .
My Lord and my God, remember us when you come into your kingdom.
Thanks, Fr Mike. You don't know what your words mean to us.
Thank you because on this Easter Sunday my only friend is darkness. I've never spent this beautiful, joyous, glorious day feeling like this.
God bless you.
Thanks Lord Jesus for all your suffering and sadness, you understand me as you have undergone the depth of suffering, sadness and pain
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Yes I think it’s a terrible feeling when you want to change your life and be closer to God and you realize that when the opportunity is there , you are weak. Very sad and disappointed lonely. Sacred heart of Jesus i places my trust in you . Lord Jesus Son of the Living God have mercy on me a sinner.
Beautiful reflection, Father. Regarding St. Peter's denial: I read somewhere that the devil's attack on St. Peter was the most intense, sustained spiritual attack in the history of the Church, after Our Lord and the Blessed Mother, because of St. Peter's role as the head of the Apostles and the first Pope. Regarding Judas: his heart was hardened since he had so many times stolen, lied, and posed as a faithful apostle. His so-called repentance wasn't for Jesus' sake, but for his own. Judas only tried to undo it because of how the consequences of his choice affected him.
Amen, Amen 🙏 Amen God bless Father Mike.
Amen. Thank you, praise Jesus
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Thank you Fr. Mike for a stunningly thoughtful sermon! I will carry it with me always. God bless and keep you this Easter season 2024.
Thanks!
This was an amazing homily
Thank you, Father. 🩵🤍❤️🔥🕊️
Beautiful, Fr. Mike. Thank you and God bless you !
Thank you for opening our hearts, Fr. Mike. Thank you for leading us to Jesus during sadness.
thank you Father Mike for these lovely words full of forgivness and compasion. Jesus thank You for Your infinite Mercy.
Thank you. Life is easier when we can share this sadness.
I do realize for for as long as I can remember Holy Thursday has felt somber and profound sadness for me.
Thank you for this homily Father Mike. Much to mediate.
Beautiful sadness.
Amen.
Thank you Father, for the understanding how our Lord loves me in my sinful weaknesses.
Preach it Fr. Mike. An interesting take on Peter. I had always thought of Peter's attack on the Roman soldier as the response of an untutored brute. A skilled soldier would have surgically dispatched the Roman, Peter cut off his ear. You can see our Lord look at him and say: "Really?" Even the untutored can be brave. Peter clearly wanted to fight, our Lord showed him how. Judas has been portrayed as the villain of the story, but his story is the most tragic. Both Peter and Judas were offered the gift of grace, only Peter accepted.
Thanks Fr Mike for Good homily 🙏 we also sing to the choir here @ St. Michael Poway Ca. 92064
Thank you. God Bless you Father🙏
For that church in Jerusalem, I will always remember visiting it. When I travel, it seems I always bring bad weather. It rained that day, as it did most of our days in that city. After checking out the interior of that church, I stepped out to the courtyard where Peter betrayed Jesus. The sun had just come out. The thing is, some people raise chickens, and when the sun comes out, regardless of the time of day, roosters do what roosters do. I heard the crowing of the rooster while standing in that courtyard. That burned into my memory that location and experience. It made me reflect even more on that passage of scripture.
Happy Easter Father Mike God bless you and Love to all
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Today is my brother's birthday. He would have been 62. In the month since his passing there has been a sadness that has co-existed with me, sometimes in the background, sometimes a overwhelming distraction. It is not lost on me his birthday this year falls on Good Friday. As I thank the Lord for his sacrifice, my prayers remain for my brother's soul to be uplifted into His loving arms - then that sadness will fade as my memories of my brother take its place.🙏
AMÉN
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Thank you!
Yea fr fr
I wonder if after the turn of events that occurred (how everything seemed to be ending), if maybe Peter didn't believe he did "know" Jesus as he thought he did... it didn't go as "expected". He was more than disappointed, upset and hurt, and this was his reaction due to those extreme emotions of hurt , anger and disappointment. But, after Jesus' gaze, he realized, it didn't matter -- he knew he loved Him, regardless, and that trumped all of his disappointment/expectations. [If that makes any sense].
Joseph went to see Pontius Pilate and asked that he be allowed to bury Jesus in his Family Tomb. Pilate agreed but asked why he would give that tomb to Jesus. Joseph replied "oh it's only for the weekend.
Is this true?
Could Father Mike look into the Red Heifers? Is this a bad sign?
The only time Jesus is recorded singing is on Holy Thursday, the night before his death. 😢
Will you always speak so deeply about the story of the Bible? I know it is like a bubble, but it is my safe bubble
I wonder if Simon Peter denied knowing Jesus because Jesus told him to stop fighting against the soldiers. He knew there was nothing more he could do to stop what was going to happen. I’m not saying it was right, but as a fellow sinner, I get it.
Father, I was wondering if maybe Peter denied knowing Jesus so that he could sneak inside the boundaries and break Jesus away before they killed him. ? Just a thought considering his string devotion. So technically he denied him, but it was for a good reason?
I like the thought of that being a possible angle that scripture may have not fully described. Scripture is like that sometimes where you feel in certain places where a story was meant to told or parts were taken out but wasn’t.
As a non catholic (non Christian, actually) studying the Catechism, I am confused by a few things. First… I understand why the people who were with Jesus were sad. It’s before the actual resurrection (that they see with their own eyes) and this is all new and this is their brother and teacher who is being tortured … so they are sad. I don’t understand why, 2000 years later, we are still sad. And I’m gonna bring this question to my other question which is why was there ever even a question anywhere in history of “Blaming” the Jews (I was often subjected to ridicule by some of my closest friends of having killed Jesus, so I know the feeling behind the question I ask)
Is the whole point of salvation rest upon Jesus on the cross and then his resurrection why is anybody being blamed for anything it’s what was supposed to happen. I think the true faith in the word, and in God‘s plan, who would have it be that we should not only rejoice in what happened, but bring into the fold, whether they believe in the story or not , everybody as what happened was supposed to happen… There is no blame… Not to mention somewhere in the Bible it says vengeance is mine, says the lord and you know what God is love, so there is no vengeance, so just think about just something to think about on this Good Friday, this year, and by the way, I love Jesus to me, Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew and he is my brother and he is still my rabbi after 2000 years… And yes I do believe he’s God also and yes he is my personal savior, so do you wanna hear about a mystery there’s a mystery for ya, ha ha ha ha happy Easter, everybody❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
While, yes, Good Friday brings rejoice because of what it accomplished, we are sorrowful for what it entailed for the person of Jesus Christ.
While it brought about salvation of the World, Christ truly suffered an excruciating death (literally).
We are sorrowful because we seek to be with Christ in the garden of Gethsemane and walk with him to Calvary during this Holy Week.
As far as your second question; I would say it’s for a similar reason the Pharisees killed Christ; because of our hardened hearts and tendency to sin.
You’re right, Jesus died for Jews and gentiles alike.
People sought to blame the Jews of the time, or generally, because they’re still sinful. Even though Jesus’ death was enough to atone for the sins of the world, that doesn’t mean we stop sinning.
But look to Christ on the cross. “Forgive them father for they know not what they do”. Not only did he not blame “all Jews”, but he forgave those that actually put him through that
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Beautiful lesson, Brother! ❤ I am a great believer that the atonement… Forgiveness is actually at the core of all healing in this world from Jesus from God to us. Yes, yes, yes thank you so much for answering me and have a blessed happy Easter, and as I have read in many churches, I’ve gone into… Let us remember this most important truth of all: “Do this in remembrance of me!”🎉❤
Fighting is probably easier than willingly dying. Fighting means a chance at survival. I don’t think Peter completely understood yet, since Jesus still had to teach him not to try to preserve Jesus’s life. I don’t think he was comprehending what he was hearing earlier. Jesus was saying often that he was going to die. Either that or Peter just wouldn’t accept it. They probably didn’t believe very strongly in his death and resurrection yet. Maybe because it hadn’t happened yet. Then again Lazarus was resurrected. So I wonder if they doubted that too. Maybe everyone was struggling with thinking Jesus was false. I think it would be very common to struggle with that since it is very uncommon to return from the dead.
Follow my history of abuse, I ate food in my dorm room, I suddenly fell asleep, I suddenly woke up in a dark room, my own, and I had a strange feeling, which the doctor then confirmed. Nothing before and lots of sl_t shaming after, even though I didn't have s_x before or after until the wedding. It was all so strange that one could think of a nightmare and a sudden psychosis. If it wasn't for the behaviour of those people around. The people around me seriously tried to make me commit suicide and convince me that I should earn money by prostit_tion because I have no other option and I am just a toy for the students around. Strange, isn't it? I honestly see a nationalistic reason for it after all these years, considering how the Czechs have resented my nationality since the age of 13, when my parents brought me to Prague.
Which bible version do you read from?
I don't know why everyone is coming at me saying that I should feel some shame, really? Give me a specific reason, I'll consider whether or not to be embarrassed. Tell some reason. Even my history of abuse does not presuppose an automatic sense of shame. No one should feel guilt and shame about rape, but I know women suffer of it, because they remember the process and some story before. Something like have a date, abuse, be drunk, abuse, go through a dark park, abuse, but I have nothing.
Not only did UA-cam add commercials to this video, but it added EXTRA commercials. Utterly disgusting. That shows clearly the fight we have with Satan. Nothing but greed on you tube's part.
Get YT Premium. Never see a commercial again.❤
@@rhwinner You want me to pay them $!?!? Who's side are you on? But also, I hardly afford groceries. I'd never give this site a bloody cent!!!! That feeds Satan.
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I'm not sad I don't go to churches, it became unbearable, not just because of bullying, but because of bothering me and fake smiling at me and forcing me to talk. I don't want to talk ppl who gossip about me. Also, men started to abuse me again in Prague churches, I hate it, I just escaped. Why don't you have some protection laws for women, as muslims have, that women don't have an obligation to go to church or have a separate place in the church? I don't want to say, a woman can't feel protected in church, but she must not have boobs. I just quit, I've had enough.
God bless you and be merciful to you. ❤
@@rhwinner God is merciful. The church is full of jerks
Buncha malarkey
@Mister
Your comment? Indeed. Real buncha malarkey.
@@jamesmcgrath3841 maybe I don’t mean what you think I mean
Can priests have sex and get tatoos???😢
I can’t even follow this priest! Is there a time limit on what he has to say??? SLOW DOWN! Please
playback speed
@theresmore
Maybe ya could speed up a little? Easy to sit on the sideline and throw the cheap criticism.
Let me ask you something, Gumby. How does being without your kid for 36 hours only to get him back less than two days later, good as new, constutite an ultimate sacrifice? Even a regular sacrifice means you lose something forever. How can an ultimate sacrifice be something you get right back, good as new in 36 hours? And then of course, having your little mini god return to your side FOREVER. What exactly did your god lose or give up or sacrifice?
Amen 🙏🙏🙏 these past years have really been sad, the past months got it worst. May the LORD have mercy on me and my family 🙏 may HE help us with our struggles and difficulties, most specially the financial struggles we been facing. May HE take away the sadness and despair in our hearts and replace it with joy anf love. 🙏🙏🙏
when did Catholics stop calling it Maundy Thursday?
Thanks!