Smarten Up! - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
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WOW! Thank you so much Fr. Mark for reminding us of God's deep love for us. This last while I've been focusing on all my sins and laziness and I was feeling discouraged. I definitely was projecting this on Jesus. Your homily has lifted me up. I have to be gentle with myself. God bless you Fr. Mark. I'm so glad we can listen to your sermons on line. I love all your teachings. Big thank you!
As The Apostle Paul said, (paraphrased) Judge nothing before it's Time. Forgetting what lies behind me I press forward to the prize of high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I think it was St Anthony who said, "With each fall, begin again."
🙏God please bless and protect our priests🙏
@@blessingsuponblessings Amen.
"Father, to Thee I raise my being; a vessel emptied of self. Accept, Lord, this my emptiness and, so, fill me with Thyself -- Thy Light, Thy Love, Thy Life. That these, Thy most precious gifts, may radiate thru me and overflow the chalice of my heart and into the hearts of all with whom I come in contact this and every day, revealing unto them the beauty of Thy Joy, in wholeness, and the serenity of Thy Peace which NOTHING can destroy. Amen!" ~ Prayer of the Chalice
Amen 🙏✝️🌹
♥️ *”Everything God made He loves, He made each one of us out of love*
*and He loves what He made.”* ♥️ Amen!!
BEST homily EVER!! ♥️ Thank you Father Mark for such a beautiful, uplifting and encouraging message. I’m often guilty of projecting on to God how I feel about myself. I must pray for the grace to stop doing this and open my heart wider to the love of God, knowing that I am His beloved child and regardless of how I’m feeling about myself He loves me infinitely. ♥️ “God is love” (1 John 4:8); “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Thank you Abba, I love You too with all my heart, all my soul and all my mind.
♥️ “God loves us beyond comprehension and we cannot diminish God’s love for us. - St. Peter
♥️ “God’s love for us is not greater in Heaven than it is now.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
♥️ “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” - St. Augustine
♥️ “Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you
*believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”* - St. Teresa of Calcutta
“God don’t make no junk.” ✝️ “Smarten up!” 🥰
♥️ Viva Cristo Rey! ♥️
I love you dear Terri🍓, my little sister in Christ!🌹
'Because I will only reveal myself to those who love me and obey me...' (John 14: 23-24)🌹
'I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Gardener. He lops off every branch that does not produce. And he prunes those branches that bear fruit for even larger crops.' (John 15: 1-4)🍓
"It is love alone that gives worth to all things."🍓 (Saint Teresa of Avila)
" Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing."🌹(Saint Faustina)
Dear Terri, I like to think of you as a sweet strawberry! 🍓
@@zionlion4445 - Thank you so much Lara. 🌹 I appreciate your kindness.
God’s love, peace and blessings to you always!! 🙏🏼🕊
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Fr. Mark. You are a gift to us all. Beautiful homilies, especially this one. THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU
Having a bit of a "crummy and miserable" day myself so thank you for this reassuring homily Fr Mark. God's perfect Love= Agape Love. Bless you.
Absolutely one of my most favorite homilies!!!! You are awesome Father!!!!
I thank you for teaching the truth, you are truly on fire for the Lord. We need your steady inspired interpretation of Gods WORD!
I really needed that today, thank you Father for that beautiful homily ! ✝️🙏🥰
Dearest Saint in the making Fr. Mark; You are wonderful. Thank you so much for helping me to try to understand GOD'S love for me and for everyone even to unborn. You are in my thoughts and prayers. I am going to share this with 58 people. GOD BLESS!👼🤵♂💖💯🙏🙏🙏🙏👼💒📿
WOW !!!! One of the best homilies I have ever heard on God's love. Thank you Fr. Goring. God continue to grace and bless you and all priests every where. 💕🕊️🙏
Thankyou, you are a Good shepherd
Father Mark... thankyou for feeding and caring for your flock. God Bless you and keep you safe from all harm and all evil in Jesus name I pray. Amen
If we are angry with ourselves, let us make many prayers of love🙏💖🙏. Hasten O Lady the hour of Thy Triumph!
Very anointed preaching in this homily! I had a major healing at mass hearing this Gospel being preached in power! God bless anyone else listening to this and know the love of the Father 😀
Amazing again Father Mark. Not only I needed this, but my teenagers need this. My wife came home a half hour ago and wanted to tell me something but felt too guilty to say it. All I said was don't hold back, if you're feeling it I probably have as well. And she asked "how does God love all of us" ? Literally right after this homily came up.
God Bless you and your Wife and your teenage children🙏🏻👪❤️❤️❤️❤️Thank you for Sharing this with All of us. 🙌😊
Love❤️ and Peace🕊️ and many many Blessings to you and All of your Family
Have a Lovely Blessed Week🙏🏻🕊️
Best wishes and Greetings from Ireland🇮🇪
This is one of the Hymns off my channel to Mark
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Viva Cristo Rey
@@ShelaghDonnellyMinist7567 thank you! Where about's from Ireland. My family came to Canada from Cork.
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Hi Mark
I live in Kilkenny Ireland🇮🇪. God Bless you and all of your Family from Cork🙏🏻👪💙❤️🕊️. Cork is a Great city. Give my very best wishes to Your family and Loved ones over in Canada🇨🇦🍁
Happy Feast🙏🏻❤️ Day of All Saints😇
Viva Cristo Rey
@@ShelaghDonnellyMinist7567 Thank you, we just finished our Rosary and I taught my kids about all souls day. God bless you and your family 🙏
We are about an hour north of Toronto, our plan is to visit Ireland as soon as we can. My wife has been to Ireland and said it's amazing!
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Hi Mark and to All of your Family🙏🏻👪❤️❤️❤️
Have a Lovely Blessed Week🙏🏻🕊️
Give my very best wishes to Your children and Your Wife👪😇
On this Feast All Souls
You Can't beat Ireland🇮🇪 as they say
What a Wonderful part of Canada🇨🇦🍁
I believe Canada🇨🇦🍁 is a Beautiful Country
Viva Cristo Rey
Thank you Father Mark! And Thanks be to God that He chose your mouth, which you refused to keep silent, through which to speak of His infinite, overwhelming, unfathomable love for His children, entrusted into your care.
I’ve listened to this about 5 times today and have it saved to a playlist so I can replay it over and over again in the future! 🙌
God Bless you Fr. Mark
Thank you for your Wonderful and inspiring🕊️ Homily
We are Truly Blessed to have The Sacrament of Reconciliation Confession💒🙏🏻🕊️
We are All sinners
Our Heavenly Father Loves us All unconditionally
We are All a work in progress
God don't make no junk
St. Joseph Terror of Demons Pray for us
O Sacred Heart of Jesus🙏🏻❤️ We Place All our Trust in Thee
Immaculate Heart of Mary Pray for us🙏🏻💙
Have a Lovely Blessed Week everyone
Viva Cristo Rey
I love you sweetest Shelagh!🌹
I wish you a wonderful week. From California with Love. 🇺🇲♥️🇮🇪
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Hi Lara and Michael and to All of your Wonderful Families🙏🏻👪👪🕊️🕊️
Have a Lovely Blessed Week🙏🏻🕊️
Love and Peace and Blessings and Prayers🙏🏻
Best wishes and Greetings from Ireland🇮🇪
I Love you to Dear Lara❤️
This video is for you
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Viva Cristo Rey
Thank you, Fr. Mark. I must admit I’m always expecting myself to fix myself now. I’m glad you said this. I know that God has fixed me little by little, and He will continue to do so. I’m not giving up. Thank you again, and God bless you and everything you do!
After the bread of life discourse where many said "This teaching is to hard for us." Then quit following Jesus. Jesus turned to His apostles and asked "Do you wish to leave me also"? To which they or Peter responded, "Lord to whom shall we go, you have the words of everlasting life". What I have started to do now is after Mass, sit and pray before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle. Our lives are a continual slipping into sin and repenting and confessing. We are all called to Holiness. That is God's desire for us. "Be ye Holy as I am Holy". No we cannot fix ourselves but we can, be as the Persistent Widow and unjust Judge, from a couple Sundays ago Gospel. We can Pester God persistently. He may or may not act as the just judge did by giving the widow what she demanded. But "To whom shall we go if Not to the Lord"
He wants us to be as they say in Texas Hold em! To say "I'm going All in". He wants us to return to Him with our whole, heart, soul, mind, being and strength,. In doing so we have to make sometimes a decision with our mind and not our heart. The Bible says our hearts are desperately wicked. But with our minds we can discern the wickedness in our hearts and choose to say no to the many temptations we face. The first step to getting right with God is seeing that we have chosen sin over Obedience to God. Then to Repent in our minds or choose to turn away from sin and then confess those sins. And I might be wrong in this but I don't think in the act of repentance or turning and walking away from sin, that we need a perfectly contrite heart. Not saying that this is ideal, obviously having a contrite is the ideal. But with our minds or grey matter we can understand our need for repentance and choose to do it even if we arent yet feeling sorrow for our sins. With hopes of softening our hardened hearts being our goal, and one day experiencing true contrition. But in my opinion we can understand our need for getting right with God and choose to try and do so even if our hearts are not perfectly disposed to do so. As they say love is a decision not a feeling. And maybe the same is true about faith. We can choose to be faithful even if we don't feel it. In love people can choose to act lovingly even when reciprocal love is not felt. And just maybe we can choose to be faithful even if our sin has caused a distance between ourselves and God. As Joshua said the the Hebrew people, CHOOSE this day whom you will serve, as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. But do consider going and praying before the Blessed Sacrament and even if you don't feel His presence, know and believe He is there. Perform acts of Faith even if you don't see any progress. Pray daily. It is crucial. St Augustine said (Paraphrased) If you are not praying daily you are not saved. Many many believers of many denominations don't have a daily prayer life. Prayer leads us to better things. God bless. If you would pray for this sinner and my family.
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God has nothing against prayers, in fact we are commanded to pray for each other, BUT it is NOT through prayers that we are saved. Take the example of the repentant thief on the cross!
(Romans 4:4-5)
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith >>is counted for righteousness
I am glad we are saved by grace, and not by works.
WOW beautiful!! 🙏❤️
"Jesus loves sinners, that's why he came...." Simple. Powerful. Pro-found!! xoxoxo
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Mark 2:17).
Thank you so much for this wonderful homily, Fr. Mark, it’s really helpful and reassuring! It has made me realise just how much I have underestimated the unconditional and perfect love of God. I was also so heartened to hear you say that God is not angry, upset and disappointed with me when I sin! I thank the Lord that we are all a work in progress and with His grace we will become saints. We just have to become little and allow Him to intervene!
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Saint making in progress - I should make a shirt with that said ❤
Fr. , I think it is high time that those who are in the Catholic Charasmatic movement and in positions of "rabbi" in that movement speak to those who are loudly speaking out against it in public forum. It would help those of us who are both traditional and holy spirit filled to answer and bring peace to those who are being led astray, away from the Holy Spirit of God, Who leads and directs the Church, to have some answers or direction to respond to this diabolical attack on the movement and I believe on the Holy Spirit Himself. We need assistance. Thanknyou Father for putting a rational, true face to the Charasmatic reality of the Church.
Amen, thanks father for the beautiful inspiring message, I needed this.
I PRAISE YOU MY FATHER FOR YOU ARE SO AMAZING AND LOVING I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FR MARK GORING 🦋FOR THIS HOMILY BECAUSE I TRULY NEED TO STOP SEEING MYSELF AS OTHERS SEE ME AND START SEEING MYSELF AS OUR FATHER GOD DOES THANK YOU JESUS THANK YOU 🙏🏼
🙌🏼 HALLELUJAH 🙌🏼 HALLELUJAH 🙌🏼
🙌🏼 HALLELUJAH 🙌🏼 AMEN 🙏🏼❤️✌🏼🦋❤️🔥
Growing in holiness little by little …. Day by day.
My dad loves me. Not taught ❤️ Caught
Our Father loves us with an everlasting love! 🕊️🌹🕊️
Indeed ❤️ Blessings Zion Lion🙏🏻
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Many blessings to you dear June! 🫒💚🌹💚🫒
Thank you Fr. Mark again& again for such inspiring words...God is bringing His Message to us through you..blessings from The Holy Trinity..🙏
You are an accomplished homilist...!!!
Keep tellin' it, Fr.Mark...!!!
Thank you fr Mark God bless you 🙏 Lord 🕊️ please help us understand your love, father son holyspirit Amen 🕊️🙏✝️💟🛐❤️
Fr Mark , that was the best sermon ever 👍🏻.How do you do it ? , how do you make me closer to God every time you speak?. Your good,Thank you 🤔🤷♂️👍🏻🤲
God’s love and mercy are unfathomable. Does anyone grasp the endlessness of it? I am just so glad for it.
Amen... thank you Father.
Amen amen amen! I just love reading the books of Wisdom and Sirach ❤. I need this daily! God bless you Father 🙏🏼✝️🛐❤️
::sniff:: That is one of the best homilies I've ever heard.
Fr. You’re fabulous! Yes, when those negative thoughts want to come in into my mind, I kick him in the butt and remind him of his future. When I was a teenager a bunch of negative thoughts come to my mind but now that I’m of age I tell him where to go down into the dark deep pit and I execute Ephesians 6:10-20 and Palms 46. The Lord is my stronghold! ✊🏼🙏🏼❤️🕊🕊🕊 also I say, “Mama Mary be with me now!” I repeat it several times. I just simply ignore him. I know, that I’m the daughter of the living God and I am enough for him, Amen!!! 🕊🎉🕊🎉🕊🎉🥰🥰🥰 I love myself! And I have enough, because I’m the richest daughter in the whole world, Amen? Amen!!! ❤️ Love U! Fr. Goring! Thank you for being an ambassador of the Lord. My prayers for you and I always pray to St. Joseph for you. 🙏🏼❤️🕊🕊🕊✝️ As well as for all priest, Amen! 🙏🏼
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You correct little by little. We are a work in progress.
Fr Mark Goring wow it looks so beautiful with all the children let the great love come upon you and all the children I really like it when you give great talk in the church mass time.
Great sermon! God is perfect Love. ♥️
I love those scriptures & little by little!
This brings tears. Thank you for your sharing your beautiful faith and enthusiasm.
Glorious! 😄
Amen, we are all trying to make it in this fallen world, where it's virtually impossible to be perfect since we are in the flesh.
Praise be to God Most High, what a great message AMEN
Thank you.
Thankyou so much Fr. Mark
Excellent once again,Father. May you keep letting God speak to your hearts so He can speak to ours through you🙏God bless you
wonderful sermon, so comforting… goes well with this weeks School of Reading
Where do I find the videos for the school of reading. I ve been a member but never found them
To they come by email? TIA
@@jenyoung2473 thye come to my inbox, ensureyou have the correct email
@@zibanorman3394 thank you I will look harder
Save me Lord Jesus Christ....come seek me out..
..ohu Lord Jesus Christ please help me to be with you...
Fr. Mark, you are a gift. Thank you for this wonderful homily.
Father Mark is just a darling gift to The Bride of Christ … ❤ Thank You, Jesus! Thank You!
The WhatsApp darling is an imposter. I guess he is a work in progress and God loves him to. 😁
Thank You so very much for this Beautiful Homily Father Mark! 🙏✌️❤️
Thank you Father Mark! As you spoke about Jesus going to the house of a sinner I thought, of course he is. Is there anyone who isn't a sinner. Any jouse he went into would be the house of a sinner. Sometimes we think of others as sinners but not us, not me. The Father loves us all.
Because He loves us more than we know how to love ❤️
Thank you so much...
Father im a Christian since birth . And today as a mature adult i aspire to be a catholic man . Jesus was a catholic after all . As was hes mother the first catholics st paul another catholic man all the saints and martyrs of the lord are catholics .no disrespect to other denominations i love our church of england its just i dont feel i belong. Also the Eastern Orthodox church. Im so interested in its history and it has been around since the beginning the last couple years ive been torn between the catholic and Orthodox churches the catholic goes even deeper because its in my family ive never felt worthy of being a catholic to be honest and the Orthodox since finding that as a adult in times of my life ive been very depressed and alone has been a guiding light. I know we are all Christians and i see them all as valid i guess its a personal choice we all make as to what brings us closest to god ive been on a long faith journey and if anyone see this id love some advice if u can reply maybe we can talk about it all thanks god bless ✝️ ❤
Thank you Father Mark.
Thank you! Encouraged me -- thanks.
I’ve heard a thousand sermons just like the first half of this video, but was just saying last night how frustrated I was that nobody seems to be addressing the other half of the situation, and then you did! And you were able to put it in such a way that I couldn’t even come up with myself on how to explain the second portion of this to people!
That it’s not “not loving” - but it IS loving, and it is also HONEST, and REAL, and NOT, “I’m okay, you’re okay, everything is okay,” like you said!
Perfectly presented! Well done!!!
And thank you so much for sharing this with people like me on the internet so I, too, can now send it and share it with others as well! 🤩🙏
Tku I want to keep hearing this. Tku
WE LOVE GOD with ALL our BEING ! I am HIS BELOVED CHILD !!! I LOVE YOU FATHER!!
Thanks God bless you 🙏
Wonderful priest listening from ireland 🇮🇪 👏 praying for you 🙏
Thanks great words of encouragement Father Mark God bless you enjoy the remainder of your week
As a secular Carmelite (Third Order) I so often fall into the self condemnation when I fail to do my Evening Prayer, or noontime prayer, and question myself just what kind of a Carmelite am I missing those prayers (which are part of our vocation). And it makes me think ‘if I can’t do even this perfectly’, when I don’t have the self discipline, self control, etc., I just want to quit it all, because I’m not the perfect example of a Carmelite! Thank you, Padre, for taking the scales off my eyes, for I have been blind but now I see. GOD bless you, Padre, today and always.
Thank you for sharing and may God bless you in your Carmelite vocation, Sandra!🌹
We don't have to be perfect, not even the Apostles, or any of the Saints were. We just have to try to love God back perfectly. 🫒💚🌹💚🫒
Thank you: Zion Lion, for your kind words as we all journey up the Mt Carmel on our eternal pilgrimage home! GOD bless you!
Thank you so very much.
Wonderful Homily Fr Mark 🙏🏼❤️
I've heard a LOT of homilies in my lifetime, but never one more moving and well-delivered as this! A Fulton Sheen level homily.
Life is not WHAT THEY THINK your brain needs rest to to do actions at church.
Jacques Philippe also writes about this disappoinment with us as having much to do with our pride, not a good thing, we should not only not project this on God, but stop it. We need to allow us to experience the pain and be sorry, but not that disappointment. Admit to God what what we are, ask Him to change us and keep peace.
Thank you for reminding me of God's love for me. That I am not perfect and that God is not disappointed in me.
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Fr. Mark. This homily uplifts me today when I start to think of the sins that I have committed!
A very beautiful homily. I could listen and ponder Gods love my whole eternity. If there is one glorious mystery, that trumps all others, one ideal that should keep us in awe and wonder it is surely Gods unfathomable but allmighty love Thank you for that lovely sermon.
It is true that God loves us, but He also asks us to love Him as a sign of gratitude:
Deuteronomy 7:9...
Know then that the Lord your God is God. This faithful God >> keeps His covenant and His mercy > those who love Him and keep His commandments
@@mec325 very much a Jewish perspective of an OT version of God. Jesus does ask us to Love God but also love our neighbour. Of course for Christian theology we are to understand that it is not Lord Lord that will save us.
Matthew writes his Gospel directed at Jews, converts etc. What does he confirm for us in Matthew 25?
We meet the Gospels version of the Final Judgement. In it there are many shocks for both saved and damned. Basically we are shown that neither were aware of their state ...but when..? However it is clear that the saved may or may not have even known whom or where Jesus was. CS Lewis argues it well when he notes that good deeds done in love of neighbour are done to God whether we believe in faith or not.
For Christians the good news of the Gospels is that God is Love. That he loves us regardless.... Indeed no matter what we do, think or even end up in..he loves us for all eternity. The greatest mystery of the faith is that we are loved beyond everything...even his Justice. This wisdom is given to us to help us appreciate his mercy which has no limits, his patience which has no judgement, his kindness which has no fury and his love which holds us beyond anything we can imagine.
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God does not change (Malachi 3:6A) and neither do His commandments since the Word is God (John 1:1).
There is nothing Jewish about obeying the commandments of God since it is the rule of every man who claims to love God. Jesus said: (John 14:15) If you love Me keep My commandments. (Ephesians 4:5-6) There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all , who is above all, and among all, and in all.
@@mec325 absolutely!
But on an intellectual and theological level we can appreciate the Bible more if we know something of the history, setting and direction it comes from and points to. For example we must be careful not to take any phrase and latch onto this with no regard for its meaning.
Hence, whilst the ten commandments do not change, their interpretation etc must be updated...no way that most modern people will envy their neighbours donkey for example. In the same way Jesus often put aside the Laws of the Jewish authorities. Laws made for men not men for the law. This brought him often into direct conflict with the religious authorities who held the law was unchanging and must be obeyed absolutely.
So if we take a Christian view what does it mean?
It means we are humble, patient and kindly. It should hopefully mean we love our neighbour, we do not shun them, stone them or place rules that are burdensome on their shoulders. In effect we have a New Covenant not based on the Law as it was in Jewish thinking but based upon doing good and loving our neighbour, thus loving God. If we love Jesus then we will have a relationship ...friendship with him. We become new creatures and whilst we certainly worship still the God of the old testament, we do so in new, modern light that means God has changed the way he wants to be seen, not in fear or misunderstanding but in love and gentleness. So ... i hope this helps suggest what we mean when we speak of Wisdom and true revelation.
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(Matthew 5:18) For I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle of the letter will disappear from the law. (Psalms 119:151) You are near, O Lord! And all Your commandments are the truth.
Whether one is a historian or an intellectual does not change anything concerning the validity of the commandments of God. The fact that we no longer travel with donkeys does not change the spirit behind this commandment not to covet the possessions of others. I know you know that and it's that aspect of you that makes me suspicious.
You seek to justify that even Jesus reproved the Pharisee teachers concerning the law, whereas this is not at all the case. What He reproached them for was adding burdens of ''useless rules'' to this law which they did not even practice themselves. The reproach that the Pharisees leveled at Jesus and His disciples was regarding the Sabbath in particular. Pharisaical law had turned the Sabbath into a burden, adding restrictions beyond what God's law said. Picking an ear of grain and nibbling on it while walking along a field should not be considered '' harvesting,'' as the Pharisees tried to categorize it. The Sabbath was not meant to burden people but to lighten their burden.
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath in that the Sabbath indicates that rest is ultimately in Him. Jesus became our rest when He did all the work necessary for our salvation (Hebrews 4). We rest, spiritually in Him, since what He did for us on the cross (John 19 :30).
God's commandments are quite the opposite of being burdensome: (1 John 5:3) For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous. If we believe that loving our neighbor is all that God asks of us, the Bible says that sinners also love those who love them (Luke 32 ; Math.5:46). Love for others must first begin with obedience to God's law. (1 John 5:2) We know we love God's children when we love God and >> do His commandments
Such a beautiful message! You truly are a light in this world!
When I heard the readings on Sunday I recalled what He said to us in the booklet the Father Speaks to His Children. Zacheus always bring a smile to my soul.
Thank you so much Fr. Mark for your excellent homily. I really needed to hear that and I appreciate your work!
I needed to hear this today. Thank you.
God bless you all.
Thank you Mark. Beautiful important message.
Thanks Fr Mark 👏👏👏👏
Praying for you 🌹
Gracias Pater.
Thank you 👣
Thank you Fr Mark for reminding me that God loves me.
Thanks a lot Fr, really what I needed to hear.
Amen!
Amen awesome explanation thanks father Mark ❤️🩹
Amen 🙏
Nice one Fr.Mark
This video is one of your better sermons - thank you 🙏
Fr Mark, I almost missed your Homily! Divine guidance ✝️ 🙏
So lovely Father Mark.Jesus I trust in you.
Beautiful homily, Father Mark! So much truth to what you said.
Thank you for speaking these words of truth.
God Bless
God's love also has conditions: Deuteronomy 7:9-11
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God. This faithful God keeps his covenant and his mercy down to the thousandth generation
TOWARDS THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
10 But he retaliates directly against those who hate him, and he destroys them; he does not differ towards him who hates him, he takes direct reprisals. 11 So observe the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances that I am giving you today, and do them.
Now, now...dear MEC, please listen very carefully...the truth is depressing, and you don't want to be seen or labeled as a downer now, do you...he he 😉
That's why I love Revelation. I find it's the most positive thing in the world! he he 😉
I admire your courage for trying to teach us Sacred Scriptures, but some of us aren't ready for solid food, we still want just milk...😉
PS. You know how much God loves you for your valiant efforts. I sure appreciate them. Keep it coming. With all this weak, watered down Catholicism, I hope and pray that none of us fall prey and will ultimately be led astray...
God loves us, He is infatuated with us! Let’s love Him back,
let’s be infatuated with Him! ❤
Thank you Father.
Only God can make us the best version of ourselves :)
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God (Luke 18:27).
Another OUTSTANDING Homily!! I am so grateful for His patience as it has taken me a while to begin to smarten up!! Progress, not perfection.
Fr. Mark you did it again. Awesome!!!! God bless 🕊💜🕊
Fr Mark…Thank you so very much for this sermon🙏✝️🌹this changes everything…
Little by little 💖💖💖💖💖🙏✝️🌹Viva Cristo Rey🙏