Prototype: Acceptance + Palm Sunday (Fr. Mike's Homily)
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- Jesus' secret is voluntary and radical acceptance.
In His final moments on earth, our Rabbi teaches us one of the greatest lessons of Bet Midrash: how do we face the worst possible realities of life? Do we resist reality? Do we avoid addressing what scares us? Or do we do what Jesus did? Do we choose voluntary and radical acceptance?
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Jesus I love you. All I have is yours. Yours I am yours I want to be. Do with me whatever you will.
Heard with open heart.. Jesus I trust in you🙏🙏
Thank you, Fr. Mike!
Lord, Jesus Christ, have Mercy on me, a sinner.
Jesus, I trust in You.
Abba, Father, Thy Will be done.🙏 ✝️
Amen🙏🏼
Thank you Father Mike ! 🙏
So powerful! Thank you!!🙏🏼
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Watching on Oct 8, 2023.....I have bladder cancer...I smile etc but my insides are churning....they will be seeing IF the cancer has returned ....and I listened going to relisten....So I can start to voluntaraly walk forward w/ my cross......Thank you Fr Mike. Blessings to ALL.
Thankyou Fr Mike , your homily is very encouraging.
Thank you, Fr. Schmidt. You are truly blessed by the Holy Spirit ❤
Thank you father mike
I totally agree! I am trying to live this way with Jesus.
I’ve been through some awful events and sometimes my friends ask how I can still believe in God and Jesus. This homily points out EXACTLY why. You can be a volunteer or a victim. Better to be a volunteer.
What a positive message. I like that.
So admirable❤
Ditto. Well said. Then comes the morning. Amen
Exactly. I just go from trauma to trauma, and nothing is resolved before the next one comes...but if it wasn't for the early childhood traumas - major, but no one listened me to, and it follows you (when you're an empath, sanguine, giver), and dangerous mentally ill by choice (not going to counseling, refuses her meds) by a family member, and others enable her and ignore the abuse on me....can't "get over something" when it's still happening. Thank God I learned about, of and was loved by Jesus from childhood because I'd not be able to handle all of this, with the brain, heart and Lung damage, poverty (current time), then my roof starts leaking, develops mold, no one took me seriously about the mold, and I'm destroyed. Then I go into the Bible...my shoulders drop. I am near taking my life, and I go into His Word, the Bible...I"m comforted. It's a lonely, torturous road, but with out a living, breathing relationship with Him? So yes, indeed....volunteer (but also acknowledging it). Victim over victor.
Thank you, everyone 🙏❤
Amen❤
Father Mike you are the best of the best of the best of the best🌄🌱🌿🌾🎆
I asked Jesus “why do we have to look at the crucifix?” He responded, immediately, non verbally with “you need a constant reminder of what I did for you and a better understanding of suffering.” Still working on that better understanding of suffering and this was a dense building block of it. Thank you!
Father Mike, your sermons are so wonderful. It can change a person's mood and way of thinking. Thank you so much. You are such a blessing to everyone who meets you and listens to you. God bless you abundantly.
accepting reality is sometimes so difficult. yet Jesus is teaching us to today
It's a choice. It's also passed down through families and a lot of cultures who don't express emotion or talk/communicate. Not accepting, is denial. And that leads to schizophrenia.... it's emotional laziness. Jesus is the reason I can easily take reality. Where my sins and issues lie? Dealing with those who don't, who abuse you for choosing reality.
What a TRUE word... every week but these 2 weeks...thank you for your holy spirit Lord
Amen. 🙏
This really was deep today. This morning before Mass, my wife told me she wants to file for legal divorce and full custody of our three young daughters. It is a horrible, heavy cross knowing this is coming after fighting for months to save everything. This homily really hit hard today, thank you for producing it. Please pray for my family
You fight for 50/50 custody, those kids deserve half time with you. Don’t let her rob you of fatherhood. Those kids need time with their dad, not someone who thinks divorce is a solution to marital problems. The courts see you as having legal rights to 50/50 custody, your kids mother is going to find out she has little say in that.
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Praying for you!!! Offered up a Rosary for you!!! Been there and suffered the pain of divorce, and an ice cold ex but she still allows me to talk daily to my daughter, to do dinners 2-3 times a month and participate when school has activity.
It is a heavy cross to bear and Padre Pio told us that Jesus revealed to is the wound on his shoulder from carrying our heaviest of crosses; was His worst wound.
God Bless!!
Praying for you and your family Elijah 🙏🏻
I am sincerely sorry you are going through this heartbreak. I have been separated for years. I hoped things would improve over time but it got worse. I hope you & your spouse will find help for reconciliation or at least a fair agreement. Have you heard of Retrouvaille? It helps couples on the brink of divorce. Of course both spouses should be on board with it but it may be an option if you're both open to it. I believe in most cases, the law tries to split custody unless there's a serious issue preventing it. I think since you're watching mass, you are a good person who cares about God & your faith ✝️ I will pray for you & your family 🙏💗 I know this is a heartwrenching trial. I hope you will be able to reconcile or have a clean break. Being in limbo is worse. God is always with you even & especially during storms 🕊
Enlightening! Freeing!
May God be praised.
My husband died from cancer over 2 years ago. I definitely did not choose this and neither did he, but we accepted his illness and lived each day as if it were our last together. We grew in our love for our Catholic faith and for each other. He died a holy death with his daughter holding his hand and I kneeling by his bedside saying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I've missed him greatly but I'm never alone. The Father, Our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit are with me always. Thank you Fr Mike for saying yes to God. Your ministry has blessed me and many others.
“I volunteer as tribute!”-Katniss Everdeen.
I didn’t know how powerful those words were until now. Jesus volunteered and we were saved.
What a wonderful homily Fr Mike. You have brought me so far in my faith from my 42 years of being faithless. Because of you, I have had the strength the Lent to go to confession, attend mass every Sunday, and have received communion. I’m a regular participant of the BIY and CIY and I’m loving my faith and life again. God bless you Fr Mike!!
One of the best homilies ever, perfect timing as well, bunch of stuff going on and on top of that the eve of returning to the office (accepting greater travel costs and time wasted) this homily made me feel better. I want to live a life where I don't need to remind myself of God's power, I pray that one day I can accept everything and leave everything in His hands not just when I am in need....
Hi MB. If you are not praying the rosary much, I recommend it for your situation. I pray with the Rosary Crew YT channel most days. Live 5pm Central USA time or on the replay.
Thank you so much, exactly as it is painful and wonderful, Our dear Father bless you with all my heart
17:22 - Love, nurse who gives what I didn't have. And yet what I get from Jesus's love that fills it in with what I didn't get. My care has been "awarded" for it's detail, authenticity, compassion, empathy and advocacy. She is right on -- suffered greatly and I wrote a paper on it.....looking at the eyes beyond the pupil, and listening to the heart with out a stethoscope..... what happens if you don't make sure you stay super intimate with the Lord? Your cup runs dry, you burn out from "dying to care for others" and eventually, you need to learn boundaries, because a god complex usually comes next. Humility is important too.
Beautiful! Thank you Fr. Mike!
Thank you Father Mike, this was very beautiful way of addressing the hardest parts of life, and how Jesus is our blessed model of acceptance. There are many layers of truths here. But it also hits home for me. I have a chronic illness of continuous pain and fatigue that I never imagined for my life. I spent my career in non profits helping sick and disabled people, and though hard, it gave my life purpose. Now I am very limited in doing anything useful or helpful for others or for myself. I have denied it and fought it just as much as many of those I used to help. But here is the wonderful part, now I am stuck in bed so much of the time, I have so much time to study the Bible and learn and pray. I have grown so close to the Lord in a way that most people can't because they are busy with doing in their lives. I do get fearful because I am so vulnerable, but the Lord has reassured me so many times that He will never leave me or forsake me. It is only that I must learn acceptance, just as our wonderful savior did. Bless you Father Mike for being such a good teacher.💖
This hit deeply in my soul. So extremely powerful. What a beautiful and loving reminder.Thank you, Father Mike. May God Bless you abundantly
Beautiful
This is powerful! 🙏
P.s please pray for me. I have been persecuted for the faith. Like Jesus in some ways and thankfully not in others. Thankfully plenty people helping us. By us, I mean others in the faith that have been placed in one place together.
This is such a beautiful homily and so real at that. I always say Fr Mike is such a blessing. God has filled him with wisdom, grace and strength...more of these I pray for you Fr. Thank you🙏
Father Mike : English Good .
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Dear Lord,
Be with us as we “radically accept “
“who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.”
2 Corinthians 1:4
Beautiful Father!
I reflected on it this past week. I was scheduled for my last chemo and I was resisting I told the Dr oh it’s fine you forgot to schedule it. I’m fine. The Dr said no you need it you have to take it.
Jesus has carried me through my cancer journey. I chose life and received my last chemo today.
I am glad you received your last chemo treatment. Praying for your health. My five year old son was diagnosed with leukemia three weeks ago and we have been in the hospital since. I understand what a difficult thing that can be. God bless
😊Thank you 😊
Love of mankind and their redemption made acceptance of the cross (sacrificial love) necessary. No greater sacrifice can a man give than to lay down his life for his fellow man.❤
Well said father Mike. Sometimes it is what it is. Sometimes we don't want things to be the way it is. I get what you're saying. And about crying. I have cried buckets for my momma. Even to the point of wanting to scream. But to only realize no matter how much i cry or get upset. It won't change anything. And our momma wouldn't want me to be upset like that. You make me realize so much. Thank you father Mike. Blessings and have a great day. Take care
All true! Just don't mind your tears. I'm a crier as well. The Church doesn't do a good job with trauma which is real. Crying is a pain response we learn as a child. Some people stuff and tuck...they learned not to cry. Those of us who cried, will cry. I'd rather cry. I give those tears to the Lord. I accept it, you should too :)
I mean i couldn't imagine anyone saying it better...the acknowledgment that us that treat ppl with a rare kindness that's unlike others is the cross we have beard! Ppl think oh because your so kind you must b naive, immature, soft, a PUSH OVER or easily manipulated but they have no idea the pain we have seen and been through to get there. I know you can't go any lower than where ive been yet that's the same reason i treat others the way i would want ppl to treat me. Period. N if u been there u know you don't ever wnt ppl to feel the pain you have felt. Soooo powerful father...thank you. U always deliver!!!❤
thank you father for another homily that hits home..."my own 'I could have been a contender' thoughts on my 93rd birthday." I shall learn to accept what God has given and then be more than grateful for those blessings that have been given.
This, I love! Amazing, how a message can be heard many times but with a difference of just two words or so it makes all the difference in understanding so precisely and accepting the message. "Radical acceptance". I will surely meditate on your words this week, most of all. Thank you.🖐🙏
Jesus teaches us that when we encounter difficult or scary things, we should accept and embrace them instead of avoiding or resisting them, as doing so will help us become better disciples. Jesus also calls on his disciples to deny themselves, pick up their crosses daily, and follow him. In the traditional Jewish educational system, young Jews would go to school until they were good but not great, and then they would have to go learn a trade. But if they were the best of the best, they would go to bet midrash to learn more.
Thanks!
Fits so well into my current situation- I'll undergo surgery tomorrow, night be benign but chances are it's malign and they'll only find out during the surgery if and how far it has spread.
Radical voluntarily acceptancel can make a sacrifice of it.
I knoe the dangers, I'm not protesting - but I'm just in a state of a sort of fake placidity being nice to the nurses.... Which is sure not radical voluntarily acceptance.
I had ointment of the sick a week ago - and today I got Communion in a way I have to offer up.
Tomorrow is the surgery - please, please pray that I do arrive at radical voluntarily acceptance of the result!
No protest,
Prayers 🙏for you
Praying for you. 🙏✝️🙏🤗
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Amen 🙏
I have to comment sometimes, but never really want to shade. It's crude but God bless this priest.
Everytime Father Mike references “a psychologist,” it’s Jordan Peterson. And they’re both absolutely right about the cross.
Yes I agree 100% 😊
I wish he would give JP credit though since he does quote so many others 🤔
Amém 🙏❤❤😊Uma coresma abençoada ❤️ e santa páscoa abençoada para todos nós Cristão amém 🙏🙏 Paz e bem 🙏 Família José Severo Duarte, esposa Isabel Martins filhas Elisângela Cristina Duarte, Elaine Cristina Duarte, Henrique José Duarte esposa Bruna Patrícia Silva Penharol Duarte e filhinho Noah LIMA Duarte Obrigado Brazil Bady Bassitt SP. Paz 🕊️🕊️ e bem. Que as bençãos de Deus nos abençoe nessa santa páscoa amém 🙏🙏 Paz e bem 🙏 Thank you Very good
Very nice in theory, no use in practical life.
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I've got a spider repellent spray in my cupboard but I don't get it out because there's a horrible picture of a spider on it😂😂😂
I would say they crucified Him - but He gave His spirit up -
Great homily Fr Mike. My question: if all young male Jews attend Hebrew school, did Jesus go to bat midrash and fail, was told to “go become a carpenter” like his father?
Never try to improve your situation, just accept it. Never avoid danger, just walk straight into it.
I see no way this could go wrong.
Making uno film about le Warsaw Getto est what Pope John Paul 2 was going threw at that time. Like Schindlers list.
14:58
Greetings Father Mike,
Thoughts :-
-> Homily emphasize Radical Acceptance with Obedient Prayers helps to navigate through Difficult Aspects in the Path of Lord Jesus Christ.
Key Thoughts - (Lenten Pilgrimage Walk) :-
-> Spiritual Revealing moments :
1. Burden of Sins in Holy Cross through Rosary Cross. Elbow,Forearm, Wrist, Shoulder Pain which subside with Periodic Rosary Prayers.
2. Indirect approach of Unholy One. Thankful Prayers towards Heavenly Father for Creation of Nature irks Devil and faced Windy blow with Turmoil for brief moment during Lenten Walk.
3. Purgatory Fire. Hot, Burning, Scorching heat and strength to overcome Negative means through Holy Cross Prayers.
-> Thanks for Great Homily, Father.
Thanks Ascension Presents.
With regards and Prayers,
Ranjith Joseph (R.J)
Is Red required of Priestly garments today or optional? My Priest continued with Lent's Purple today.
I'm afraid of the sea. Swimming and finding soon there's no floor anymore 😱. How a psychologist would teach me to become brave? Duh! On top of that he has to be like a diver 🙄. And he better do it well cuz I wanna swim with sharks 🦈.
And no animals would eat me.
Is it a contradiction that we avoid sin or the near occasion of sin?
Hi Robert 👋 Not exactly. What Fr. Mike is implying is that we must accept the will of God, no matter how hard it is. But sin is contrary to the will of God, so that, we must continue to avoid. Hope that helps.
No😂x
The kid in 🪓 hatchet by Gary Paulson is named Brian not David.
Hard to hear; even harder to accept. There’s got to be a tipping point somewhere along the line.
Hi Christine. I agree. There can be a tipping point in everyone's life. We all have our limits. But I feel that if we learn to accept, we also learn to let go, which, in my own experience, helps out a lot to restore peace. But we can't always do it alone. We need the grace of God in those certain circumstances that are too much. We need His strength and we need faith. 🙏
No. Thank you. If you are going to be a jerk just like someone. I don't need any of you. Good lucj
if crucifixion was allowed and it didn't make me ugly or poop when I die in front of everyone I'll accept it 🤭 only if it goes through my wrists cuz my hands are pretty 🤭
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I ain't getting near no covid needles.
to tell a child "crying does nothing' implying you shouldn't cry --- is one of a sure ways to mess up a child's psyche so that he may end up being out of touch with his emotions, unable to acknowledge them and feeling the need to "fix" himself and whatever it is that may be upsetting him. That's just a variety of "big boys don't cry" -- raising emotionally dysfunctional men.
haha, acceptance can be pretty easy : aging. Like, almost every woman in the wolrd dyes her hair, for what? To look younger or to seem be stupid blondie. I could never understand the core of it. same as some bigger cosmetic interventions as botox. I never dyed my hair and I embrace my gray hair, it is part of the life and changing. I don't care to look young forever. We have no forever in our lives here.
Siddhartha gautama taught radical acceptance well before christ was even born. This entire teaching you have taught today..is a buddhist concept that was taught more than 2500 yrs ago..just saying
This is messed up
Please talk slower..its difficult to follow
Tap on the video screen and look for the “gear” symbol. Tap on that and look for Playback speed in the dropdown menu. Choose a slower speed (the choices listed above “Normal”), then go back to listening. I had to do this for awhile when I first found Fr. Mike. My mind gradually became accustomed to his speech and now I can usually listen in Normal speed. Good luck - it’s worth the effort.
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