The Feast of the Presentation
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In this episode, we will explore ideas such as:
The prophecies about Jesus coming into the Temple.
Jesus is fully God and fully human
Jesus’ presentation leads to our presentation.
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Due to copywriting issues, Keith uses the RSV translation.
Thanks Keith. Your explanation is very clear and God bless you always.
I thank God for you Keith. You have really helped me make my reversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. This was beautiful. God bless you.
Another ❤, another "10"
You HIT THIS ONE out of the park.
Keith your Amazing and beautiful Thanksgiving for you. 🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻You Nailed It❤
Keith. My dude you’re always killing it out there with Catholic content. God bless, brother.
Thank you
Dear Keith, in my hometown Zadar, Croatia in the church of St.Simeon, we have relic of uncorrupt body of St. Simeon, and one can actually marvel at hands that once held our Saviour. In few hours I am going there for the Holy Mass
I look forward to these teachings weekly! They do such a great job preparing me for Sunday mass. Thank you, Keith!
I’ve had to rewind 4 times as I’m trying to listen/watch while cooking dinner 😮
You're in good company. I'm making eggplant pizza. Yes, it's not for everyone. God is good all the time. ✡️✝️🕊
That's how I listen to podcasts too! A 20 minute podcast will take me 40 minutes.
I'm watching again before Mass✡️✝️🕊📿🕯
Thank you Keith for your witness! It’s helping me to be a better Catholic!
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Thank you for bringing us unpacking the mass
This has been one of the most powerful and understandable explanations of the Mass and reflection on today's readings. Thank you and God bless.❤
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Thank you Keith...keep up the good work spreading the good news!
Thank you Keith
i present myself and my family to my GOD IN ALL OUR UNWORTHINESS
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Wonderful illumination. Simple, direct and yes, I’m blown away. Thank you and God bless.
Thank you Keith for another powerful explanation of God's " red thread " througout the whole Bible, from the very beginning to the end. His plan of redemption before creating the world. In the labyrinth of life, we should keep tight to this red thread: Jesus Christ!
Greetings from Germany. 😻
Beautiful sermon bro.
“show up and have faith!”
This whole thing was so helpful
Thank you!!
Good evening everyone
I agree with everything Keith said except receiving holy communion while you have mortal sins on your soul. He said to come to Jesus in your total mess. Confession is a must before we come to communion.
Great, but I never said to receive communion in a state of mortal sin. "Coming to Jesus" also means going to confession.
Such a beautiful reflection Keith … I loved every minute of it. It struck many chords. God’s blessings from Ireland. ☘️🕊️☘️🕊️☘️☘️☘️🤗
Powerful words. God bless you Keith 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Holding Jesus in your arms......cannot get my mind around it
Great unpacking of the mass! Thanks for the insightful explanation, Keith.
Have a good night
I wasn’t able to watch the live broadcast so, I just finished watching the replay! I I appreciate how you simplify the readings, Keith Nester! You’re a great teacher! Thanks!
Very good theology brother what we believe of Mary is what we believe of Jesus
Thank you 😊 God bless 🙏
Amen brother stay safe 🙏 🇬🇧
Love the clear explanation
Thank you Keith GodBless
One word POWERFUL.
Another awesome episode
I was just praying the rosary and when I got to the fourth mystery I thought I don't understand this mystery. I finished praying turned on UA-cam and the first thing I see is this video. God is good.
WOW!
Many thanks Keith!
Another awesome episode! Thank you for all you are giving us
God bless you
So great
Thank you Keith, God bless you!
Thank you for your explanation
34 and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted 35 (and you yourself a sword will pierce)[k] so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed
Why is this verse so powerful?
Great explanation brotha
What's up from Victorville, CA
Thanks!
According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn, in obedience to the Law of Moses, Leviticus 12, Exodus 13:12-15.
The Church compressed the time of the Purification to coincide with the Presentation for its own purpose(s) and reason(s) (dunno why). In fact the purification of women, at the time of Jesus, was 30 or 40 days depending on whether the child born was a male or a female.
Do you agree were saved by the mercy of God
100%
Not a one way deal
We're saved by Jesus.
Good question. Yes saved by only God's grace.
it is a FESTIVAL OF the mystery of Gods redemption revealed . A link between the covenant of the old testament and the NEW COVENANT JESUSCHRIST.;A light revealed to the non Jews.The feast of presentation of the child Jesus is celebrated in India in a meaningful way from the beginning.
The talk on the fest of the presentation is heavenly the presenter looked like Jesus and spoke like Jesus alive why cant out parish priests all over make presentations like Keith nester
that is because they are grown so complacent they don't realize that they owe the parish a good deal at each Sunday mass most priests pp look the collection plate and don't justify their position in the parish sadly we don't get nourishing homilies i believe the cardinal of
various parishes should insist that pps prepare homilies which motivate the parish towards holiness Milroy Martyn Victoria Australia
Please pray for me. I’m not sure who else to ask. 😢 I’m a Christian, on the path to converting to Catholicism for several months ago. I was raised a Southern Baptist pastor’s daughter, then went to Liberty University where I met my husband. We’ve been married 18 years next month. We have always gone to Baptist and non-denominational churches throughout our marriage in 3 states. Unfortunately, I have severe endometriosis which wasn’t diagnosed until I kept having miscarriages in my early 20’s. Through our 11 years of infertility, I had four endometriosis surgeries. I went on a strict diet then turned fully crunchy so as to avoid endocrine disruptors and hormones in my food. I did acupuncture, yoga, physical therapy, and chiropractic adjustments. In 2016, we did 2 rounds of IUI which didn’t work. In 2018, we did IVF and thankfully, had our wonderful little boy. In 2020, I got pregnant on accident (which hadn’t happened in 8 years), but lost the baby. (I have to take a slew of medications during pregnancy including blood thinners, steroids, and progesterone.) In 2022, we did another frozen embryo transfer and had our second son. We love them both, absolutely. They are the light of my life and I have prayed for them every day of their lives, thanking God for them, praying for wisdom in parenting, praying for their health and development. We’ve raised them in a Christian home, taking them to church almost every Sunday, having our oldest in a Christian pre-K, praying with them at meals and bedtime, teaching them Bible stories, modeling good characteristics, etc. Fastforward to August 2024. We enrolled our son in a Catholic school, even though we are Protestant. We want so much better for him than the public school here could ever dream of being. (The public school literally has trans bathrooms…) I read the daily classroom updates and saw all of the projects my son was bringing home and heard all that he was as learning not only in academics but also in his religion class. He started crossing himself when he prayed and praying Hail Mary at lunch. It was honestly adorable. And in October, I started studying church history because I wanted to understand why there are so many Protestant denominations and why they have to little in common and they all believe they are the correct flavor or Christianity. And all of that led me to the knowledge that the Catholic Church was the original church. I started OCIA classes and listening to Catholic apologists like Trent Horn, Joe Heshmeyer, and videos from you and Fr. Mike Schmidt. It was so much interesting and enlightening info. And then it happened. Sitting in OCIA and the topic of IVF came up and the way it was discussed was so ignorant and rude. The guy didn’t even know how it worked, but he knew his church taught it was a sin. And that has led to like 7 weeks now of me feeling conflicted. My former church didn’t teach that it was sin. The “rule” was that it obviously didn’t exist when the books of the Bible were pinned, so it needs to be prayerfully considered and never include the destruction of embryos. So that’s what we did. And honestly, we prayed about it for 2 years and never felt like we were doing something sinful when we did it. We left the process to God, prayed it would work, and thanked Him so much when it did. Our children are gifts from God, created in His image, loved by Him, just as much as any other person is. I spoke to the parish priest about it and he said it is only a sin if you know it’s a sin and do it anyway, which I didn’t. But it is discussed so frequently among Catholics that it is just in my face every day and I have come to feel intense shame over the very existence of my kids, and I wonder if my family would ever actually be accepted in a Catholic Church or if they’d be treated like dog crap, as so many comments I’ve read online do. I’m on the verge of giving up on all of this and just going back to my non-denominational church where at least there is children’s church and a nursery so parents can pay attention during the service. I don’t want to be someone who is making my religion about myself. This is nothing like someone being unwilling to turn away from active sin. What’s done is done. I am a mom of two amazing little boys, who had to be conceived via IVF because my severe endometriosis kept killing off my babies and this was the only way around that. It’s done. My children are valid. They were made by God, the author of life in atypical circumstances. I have always viewed them both as miracles and praised God every day for them. And now I feel like the message I’m getting from the church is that our family was created in sin and can never be whole or good in the eyes of God. I am so lost right now. 😭
I'd invite you to study what the Church teaches about IVF and why. I think in most cases, it involves the destruction of embryos, which is the taking of innocent life. That's probably why your fellow OCIA catechumens spoke so harshly about it. Try giving them some grace - no one is judging *you* personally, right? Similarly, think about the way prolifers speak against abortion. We can get pretty hot without regard to the possibility that someone in the room might have had an abortion in the past. There are often heated discussions surrounding these life issues, but I don't think any Catholic, nor the Church herself, would say that your children aren't "valid"!
Also, your priest told you that you didn't commit a sin through IVF, since you weren't aware of the ethical ramifications. So, why on earth would you feel like "the Church is telling you your family was crated in sin and could never be whole or good in the eyes of God"? Clearly, the priest assured you that the opposite is true!! Not only that, but even if you had sinned, there is no better place to go for the assurance of God's forgiveness than the Catholic Church.
Let it go... and don't let this keep you from coming home to the church Jesus Christ founded! 🙏❤️
@@janeyount8412 Because the priest is the only person who has said that to me. If you read comments on literally any Catholic video about IVF, they are full of nasty, hateful, ignorant remarks like that. If that is coming from the body of the Catholic Church, then that is representative of how the people in the Catholic Churches feel, right?
The church’s teaching on IVF is not specific to the destruction of embryos, which we never did. When someone is going through IVF, you have to sign all these legal forms consenting to various things. They do ask what you want to happen to remaining embryos (cryopreserve for a future cycle, embryo adoption to another couple, or destruction). No one has to destroy embryos. The catechism says IVF removes the love aspect from procreation, which is just ignorant and false. My husband and I love each other more now than we did when we were married 18 years ago. IVF did not remove love.
I'm looking for some help. My sister has been terribly abused and is looking into paganism. She's walking away from Christianity, and I am struggling to bring her back without accidentally pushing her away. Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you Keith! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your explanation
Thanks!