Day 308: Same-Sex Attraction - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
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Fr. Mike guides us through the Catechism’s discussion of same-sex attraction. He highlights that all of the Church’s teachings on sexuality stem from her embrace of God’s intended and revealed purpose for sex. Fr. Mike stresses that this understanding of sexuality is core to our understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2357-2363.
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Such a profound lesson - and one that is so necessary in the world today. NO ONE is without sin, and if it wasn't THIS, it would be something else. But, with Jesus, we can be healed. ❤️🙏❤️
I was during the pandemic able to slow way down and review my whole life, and I came across Father Mike's discussion on this topic. I have always loved Christ from childhood, but not having been raised a Catholic I did not have this essential education on reason and logic born from the church and a part of our Western philosophical heritage. Father Mike's lecture on this topic was essential for helping me deal with a lifetime of misunderstanding that led me to follow broken logic of the world and accept current trends of social ideology over the basics of Christ and God and reason. Love is Love but only if it is rooted in the source of true love God, Christ and the Holy Spirit, agape love. I might also add that the Thomas Aquinas (Aquinas 101) videos are extremely helpful in setting aside worldly constructs for a more spiritual view that still has a foundation in reason and logic and the writings of CS Lewis as well. Peace be with you.
Gail, I know very well what you say. From a young age I believed in Christ & His saving work, but through brokenness I didn’t follow Him for many years & sank into the depravity of the world. Thanks be to God He rescued me. I’m still unlearning all that society taught. It’s a long hard road. I depend on the Church every step of the way, but it’s hard, especially since I’m so alone. This community helps & im very grateful.🙏❤️
God bless you
@@JacksonD0716jesuschrist is the fake god of the white man's religion ....Christianity. May EL ELYON, GOD MOST HIGH destroy this satanic sect of the catholic organisation. Yahushua haMassiach is THE SON OF GOD!
A long episode indeed. A long-awaited one. As a man who is trying to be a non-practising gay and a practising Catholic, I like how forthrightly yet gently this "episode" was presented. I am challenged from both sides. I have experienced discrimination in church from the "us v them" brigade (which greatly saddened and discouraged me), but also from within my gay friend group, which cannot reconcile that I am gay, but choose to live a Catholic life I have one objective which may seem very naive, and that is to be a gay saint. I just want to get to heaven and meet God and say thank you. I am on the bottom rung of the ladder that Father Mike so eloquently described... but with patience and prayers, I hope to make it up a few more rungs! Thanks Father Mike for mentioning the Eden Invitation. I had never heard about it and am going to check it out.
May God bless you!
Have you considered joining a Courage chapter?
I will check it out! This has been a great day.
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I am moved to pray for you. Here's to your road to sainthood! May the Holy Spirit lead and guide you all throughout your journey. Amen. 🙏💓
We believe in you brother! Rely on the grace of God and fight on!
I'm cohabitating with my boyfriend but after studying catholicism we decided that we will never have sex (In fact we never did).
Please pray for us.
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The mere fact that you are living together before marriage brings about scandal, as you will have learned when the Catechism covered that topic. Others don't know, but those that do will simply say, "Look: hypocritical Catholics doing whatever they want...again." That our broken culture is so numb to something like living together without being married just goes to show what a sad state we find ourselves in: sadly, most people today won't even care.
But by not cohabiting before marriage, you are actually IMPROVING the chances of a succesful union; please, go Google that and you'll be surprised.
If there is some way to stop cohabitating before you get married, I would suggest you take that route. It's not easy, but being Catholic isn't easy, it never was, and as you'll soon find out as a married couple, will continue to present challenges.
For as long as we are here on this earth, it will not be easy for Catholics. In many ways, that's the point: we need help, we need God's grace to keep on the path that Jesus showed us. I will pray for you.
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This topic is so very sad for me. I have a few gay friends who are sincerely kind, compassionate, hardworking people. Yet, I am sad for their souls and their salvation. Lord have mercy on ALL your children. Have mercy on me too.
Amen. True for me too. Lord God have mercy on us all.😢
Let us pray that they choose to live a chaste life rather than one that puts them in conflict with the natural order as God intended.
Let us all pause and pray for each other because we are all broken and for God's grace to be poured upon us unceasingly. Amen! Amen!!
Amen!🙏❤️
Thank you for taking the time to explain this. It is a struggle to reconcile my thinking to the church doctrine but I'm praying that God will help me make real sense of it. I accept that I misunderstand so much and have a lot of work to do. I don't want to blindly accept what I'm told but instead want to weave it into the fabric of my life. Jesus, I trust in you.
Peace beloved. Thank you for being so honest. In counselling people who seem stuck, it's found that the root cause in most cases are absent Fathers or broken Parenthood, where the person never felt loved by either parent...due to the Parents own brokenness. INNER HEALING - a Letter writing process, of that FIRST root that hurt or scarred us. Once written the letter is BURNT. 1st. Meditate on your life from a baby and allow God to reveal who it is through a tear popping when you at the right person. 2nd Write all your anger to only that person and blame them for everything that happened in your life. Start each sentence with I AM ANGRY because... The HEALING part is where you picture you both healed in God's Presence and that person turns to you saying I AM SORRY, I LOVE YOU, I WAS UNABLE TO COS I TOO WAS BROKEN...I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE FOR YOU...REPEATING the Words of Love and Sorrow till you believe it. This changes your heart towards the person even if they never change and helps you pray compassionately for them. 3rd part of the same letter is GOD's LOVE for just you...speak all this into your soul to heal you. BURN BURN BURN it
Thereafter Celebrate your FREEDOM and be patient with yourself and allow the growth in baby steps. Ask people to pray for you. Put on The Armour of God cos the 7 Deadly sins will return forcefully. Confess and take accountability wherever you have failed. FORGIVE yourself and everyone. God Bless you. Together we are the Body of Christ, when one hurts the whole Body hurts. Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, Save Us and the whole world.
Truly, we are all looking for true love and friendship - but all too often in harmful and sinful ways. Thank you, Fr. Mike, for always speaking with such compassion and understanding. God bless you and all of us!
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Dear Father Mike , don't have to apologize, that is so profound, so deep, so true , we are broken, each and everyone of us , and yes what ever we are struggling with, if it wasn't that it would be something else , but GOD is GOOD, HE knows our struggles and HE cares , HE is the answer , truly .
Thank you Father , thank you for your kindness , love and Prayers, thank you, I am Praying for you and us all .
Devine Mercy 🙏📿🥰👍🐸🙏
Amen. Thank you Jesus for giving us Fr. Mike to spread your LOVE.
Amen, no apology necessary.
Amen!🙏❤️
Father Mike you and the work you do is such a blessing and a gift, I thank you for helping me obtain a deeper understanding of my faith and growing closer to God. Frequently you end the pod cast by apologizing for how long it was, please don't do that. It takes as long as God needs it to, no apology necessary. May God continue to bless you and all those you are able to reach.
There is no Sainthood without the Cross
Fr. Mike, ive read your book and heard you speak on this subject several times on UA-cam. I honestly think this was your most powerful presentation. I wish it had been available 60 years ago.
The book is excellent. Also the UA-cam video. It helped me a lot when our daughter told us she had a woman partner. And made it even harder - for me - when she said they were married. Many, many tears....
Praying for all of us.🙏❤️
i agree forgive me Lord
Fr. Mike, you have knocked it out of the park on Day 308.
The most intelligent, honest, and truthful discussion on same sex attraction I have ever heard or read.
What a gift!
Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. 🙏❤. "Understanding is better than intelligence."
❤🙏 Agree!
So true!🙏❤️
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Thank you Fr Mike for tackling this very sensitive yet important subject that has been affecting many lives painfully.
May God heal the heart, mind and soul of those who are having same-sex attraction and living this kind of life style specially those who do not understand or refuse to understand why having this relationship is absolutely wrong.
You are love dear Lord and may they seek and find true love and happiness in You. Amen.
Amen! ❤🙏
Amen 🙏
Amen!🙏❤️
Fr. Mike, that was so well explained. Especially it is NOT them out there...we are all in the same boat! Amen! Be with us Lord.
Fr Mike I thank you for the way you explain everything to us. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏
I love the idea of non-sexual friendship that leads to sainthood. May the Lord grant us this precious gift of true friendship. 🙏🏾🙏🏾. Thank you Father Mike. God bless you. Grace to the CIY Family. ❤❤
God bless you Father! You have a tremendous gift for addressing the most delicate/sensitive matters with clarity, compassion, and love. If we can just remember that we are all in this thing called Life together.........
This topic is so tough in today's culture which says do whatever you want if it feels good. If you promote chastity people think you are unrealistic and even crazy.
Hello everyone & Happy Day 308!🙏😊
🙋♀Elizabeth & All 😊Day 308 ❤🙏
Good morning Elizabeth 😁
Hello all and happy 308!!!
@@Alexander-fr1kk Hi Alex!😊
Howdy y’all!👋🤠Happy day 308.🙏❤️ My granddaughter & her family are back for a few days.😁Her husband is working in the area where I live & they need a place to stay in the meantime. My great-granddaughter is slowly getting used to me. She was blowing me kisses 😘 last night.😍❤️
Fr. Mike, God heard your prayers and gave you the wisdom and gentleness and firmness and Truth in your great explanation today! May He be praised in all things!
I have surrendered my cross to Jesus Fr. Mike. My oldest son has estranged himself from me and my family and have not heard from him in 12 years. This is a brutal cross for a mother. But the only way for me to survive is to surrender it to God. 🙏❤️
Please don't give up on him. Jesus never gives up on your son, who is also dear to His eyes.
Thank you for reaching out. I pray 🙏 for my son every day but it is very difficult for a mother to bear the pain of not hearing from her first born son and being able to spend time with my granddaughter. I trust in our Lord and I give my son to him to take care of now.
Having struggled with same-sex attraction I can say with a lot of confidence that it all comes down to trauma. Sometimes it's a single moment other times it takes years. It can be subtle or otherwise it can be full on to the point that the person represses the memory till it's "forgotten". It's a horrible thing to feel as I felt like a freak and that I didn't have a place in the Church. I'm doing far better now, but man, I really feel for those struggling with it, it's pretty brutal.
Edit: I can understand that maybe some were raised in loving homes, but the fact is that these things can go all the way back to conception, I've found out this year that wounds can happen from the womb.
I'm a male exclusively attracted to males and grew up in a two parent household with no traumatic experiences and nothing but love and care. I guess we're all different.
Trauma stays with us forever. William Faulkner wrote, "The past never dies. It isn't even past."
Don't give up on yourself, on God, or on his church. You are loved!
Lord help us to grow in sanctity in our present circumstances. Self mastery, carrying our crosses with love knowing that our Lord is always with us to help us in our struggles. We have not been given anything that is beyond our strength because His grace is sufficient for all our situations. Come to me you who labour, may we rest in Him amen
Amen🙏❤️
Father you are so right. Each one of us has a cross or crosses. This has been an exceptional teaching for me. Thank you and God bless you always I have been following you since 2022 January 3rd to today and not missed one session. I am so grateful for your sharing.
It doesn’t have to be a cross though. It’s only a cross because religious zealots make it one.
@@thescoobymike??? Can you explain your remark???
Fr. Mike has such a gentle but firm way of teaching.🙏❤️
@@TrixRN being queer or in a queer relationship can be a completely comfortable normal thing. The only things that make life difficult for us (other than the ordinary things that make life difficult for any human, regardless of orientation) are the people who pass laws against us or harass us or who mentally torture us (thru conversion therapy or mental abuse for example). There doesn’t need to be a cross for us. But we’re crucified by people who pass these laws and enact such abuse.
@@thescoobymike These laws, the harassment, & mental abuse are wrong. The Pope has strongly condemned them. Everyone must be treated with dignity & respect as a precious human being made in the image & likeness of God.
Everyone is unfortunately prone to sin from concupiscence. Homosexuality is no worse or better than couples living together without marriage, adultery, or any other sexual sin. I’m single . I dated for quite awhile, but every single male I went out with not only wanted sex, but insisted that had to be part of the relationship. I get very lonely; that’s my cross to bear.
Did you really listen to the podcast, or are you going off assumptions of what you think Fr. Mike said? Because if you listened I don’t understand how you came to the conclusions you have throughout these comments of what the Catholic Church teaches. We are all called to holiness & purity & no grave sexual sin is worse than another. God bless you.🙏❤️
What a lesson! Thank you, Fr. Mike! I took wonderful notes, and now I know how to respond to middle school questions about homosexuality and the Church's position.
Thank God for Father Mike's clear, charitable and orthodox presentation of this subject. What an interesting coincidence that it came out the same day as the news that Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann of the Diocese of Speyer issued a letter asking pastors in his diocese to bless same-sex couples. I feel for and pray for the young men and women with same-sex attraction who are growing up in an age when so often the response from church leaders to the question of "what must I do to be saved?" is "who am I to judge?" As someone with same-sex attraction, I am so grateful that I came of age under St. John Paul II, and the light of the "splendor of truth," shed by his faith, clear teaching, and humility. May God have mercy on his church.
Amen 🙏
Maybe Church leaders, pastors, all priests, religious and lay people all should learn catechism again. This is the moment of the Truth revealed about human sexuality, where human thoughts and minds are most distorted and disordered. I finds Catholic catechism is the most truthful, enlightening teaching all people should know and learn from it.
Fr.Mike, you have done an awesome job on this section on chastity. There is one very important thing that you have not touched on and seems to be always be looked over when talking about the chastity and sexuality in the church. We mention clergy, deacons, consecrated virgins, men and women who join orders and take the vow of chastity. We go into detail about chaste marriages and how those who are homosexual are called to chastity. You even mentioned confirmed bachelors. But it seems that few mention those who are single men and women who are practicing Catholics and deeply desire to find a practicing Catholic spouse. They desire to live out that vocation but they have not been blessed with a future spouse. On our circle of young people we know, there are several of these people of varying ages. I pray that our church, clergy and programs being to include them in the ways they talk about sexuality and how their lives can and are fruitful. And even how to deal with their singlehood wholly, purely and frutifully. These people that I know are living full lives. They still desire marriage but it is not happening for them. Help us address this too.
Maybe you should write to Fr. Mike about this.
@@meihui7767 I keep seeing people say to write to Fr. Mike in the comments but I cannot find an email to write to him at. Do you know where one might find that?
@@thepeanutbuttercookieninjaI don’t have Fr. Mike’s email but I think you can write him be regular letter to where he works. The University of Minnesota at Duluth Newman Center.
Heartwarming explanation of tough situations. Many prayers for all of mankind. And may we always show love and respect towards everyone!
Thank you Fr. Mike for beautiful explanation and reminder!
God Bless ALL!
Thanks, Father Mike for giving me hope I can become a saint! Even me!
May God bless you always 🙏
Life is hard yet so beautiful! These topics the last two days have made me really think 🤔 and empathize with struggles we all encounter to various degrees, whether with this form of “brokeness” or some other, these crosses are just hard to carry. Yet, when I think about the cross Christ carried out of love for us to show us how to carry our cross/es, it is by no means comparable. He bore it all on His cross.
And look at that redemption!!! What a gift He is to all of us if we follow His lead in whatever brokeness we experience. I truly believe He draws us close to Him in our crosses/suffering if we let Him. There is real redemption there.
Wow, Thank You Father! This was such a POWERFUL episode, & you explained The Truth, soo beautifully & with such wisdom enveloped in The Holy Spirit🕊️ God Bless You Father & All here, & your All in my Prayers!
❣️Surrendering ALL To Jesus becomes our ~"Ladder to Heaven & our Stepping Stones to Sanctity!"
Amen!!
Father I thank you for MY cross. MY cross as permitted by you.
Amen!🙏❤️
This was a subject that I believe was handled with love and compassion . Fr. Mike handled it beautifully, just as he had done with other sensitive subject. Good job. Lorraine
“surrender your cross to Jesus and it can become a stepping stone to heaven” Amen. ❤
Lord, help us to love as you love. To bear our crosses.
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 11/4/2023.
❤Heavenly Father, grant your healing touch to those who are facing physical or emotional challenges. Bring them comfort, strength, and restoration.❤
Crosses are ladders & stepping stones!! What a beautiful way to experience life!! Thank you!
Noo, Father Mike, long episodes are the best! Don't be sorry!
I’m doing RCIA and following this on the Hallow app. Thank you Father Mike. God bless you with every spiritual gift and physical health to keep you in love and peace.
Thank you father Mike for staying firm.
Thank you Father Mike get through some rough times love these podcasts
Praise be to God forever ❣️
Thank you so much Fr Mike and Ascension. My continued prayers for all, God Bless 🙏🏻
Thank you, powerful lesson. Love the sinner not the sin.
Say like it is Father Mike!
God bless Father Mike thanks be to God Amen 🙏
Amen! Father you state the truth so well. As you pointed out the "stereotype" of the mindset of a lot of people does harm. The devil seeks to divide people - you see it in this world in the mindset with different race issues - pitting each other against each another. In "celebrating" the different days pointing out differences seeking to divide further still. Instead of celebrating that the real thing that unites us is that of our souls and ALL of us are made in the IMAGE OF GOD. Prayer always and God's blessings!🙏🙏🙏
Respect, compassion, and sensitivity to all - Amen ❤Many “Christians” will approach the Bible like a buffet and pick and chose which lines to support gossip and ill-speaking words -and use those “selected” lines to hurt others all in the name of “Christ”
God bless everyone let’s make sure our words and actions are godly and not of this broken world
Great shout out to Eden Invitation 🎉. Thanks for mentioning this so needed addition in the Church.
Very sensitively and truthfully done. I think the today's readings should have just been on same-sex attraction. The important readings on marriage did not get the commentary they deserved. This podcast series on the catechism is a beautiful blessing for many people of truth and Christ's compassion. Thank you!
Day 308...Thankyou Fr.Mike...am so grateful for the lessons..Prayers for you 🙏 and all in the Ascension team 🙏
Chastity=self-mastery=freedom.
Thank you Father Mike, praying for you all.. God bless ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Monique! Also praying for you ❤🙏
Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
Praying for everyone.🙏🙏🙏
Such a great explanation. Thank you, Fr Mike!
Truth and God never change because they’ve perfect!!!!
Thank you Fr. for explaining so clearly a subject that’s so difficult 😊
Thank you for telling the truth
Thank you Father Mike!🙏❤️
Thank you for your charity and truth Fr. Mike
Thank you for this awesome message. God bless you, Father Mike.
Thank you Father Mike and God. Love the Church Jesus gave us.
“Every human being - regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of past experiences of relationship, regardless of how he may have been treated by family members - is made for love."
All too often, this discussion involves a separation between those speaking/teaching and those being discussed. However, Fr. Schmitz abandons this “us versus them” mentality, focusing entirely on “only us”, who have this same anthropology and this same calling. He seeks to build an understanding that we are united as humans, not separated because of one thing or another. Made for Love is more than just a book on the Church’s teaching on same-sex attractions; it is a book on the human person and the destiny for which we were made.❤❤❤
-Fr Mike Schmitz
Fr. Mike really has a way with words.🙏❤️ It’s so disturbing that the “powers that be” are deliberately causing divisions among all the people. A divided populous is a controlled populous. It seems obvious that control is the goal. Unfortunately I see the Church going down the same road; Bishop against Bishop, Cardinal against Cardinal dividing the laity with their rhetoric & turning on the Pope. smh 🤦♀️😢🙏❤️
@@TrixRNIt is unfortunate; we, the people, need to wake up and I don't mean get woke. 😂
@@KB_2161 I saw today Bishop Strickland is doubling down in his rhetoric against the Pope. It makes me so sad; he was such a good bishop before he started this.😔🙏❤️
Thank you, Father Mike for your kind and heartfelt words on this sensative topic. We have a person very close to us who deals with SSA and it's incredibly heartbreaking how hurtful others can be towards this individual and their family members. As you stated from the Catechisim that "the Church says they must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity." Sadly, from my personal experience it sounds good on paper, but I don't feel a lot of people put this into practice. At a recent Mass we attended the priest made an unkind remark in his homily about people with SSA and I actually left a study group because of several individuals making hurtful remarks. We all have struggles and it breaks my heart how deliberatly insensitive and unkind people can be.
All of your reflections in Bible in a Year and CIY are so amazing, but today's was beautiful, profound and so helpful. We are all broken and beautiful and God loves us just the way we are. God bless you abundantly, Father Mike and all of the CIY community.
Praise to you God and Jesus Christ🙏❤🕊😇
You hit a home run with this talk Fr. Mike. I believe it will help many people. Praise be to God! ❤
Thank you Father Mike for expounding the different aspects of the sixth commandment. It has opened my mind up about homosexuality. I have learned it is brokenness just like brokenness of adultery.
This has brought me to humility and to be compassionate to those of my brothers and sisters struggling with it.
I'm aware now that those struggling with this disordered attraction are not worse than those struggling with pornography. We all need mercy and empathy and support not alienation to overcome our individual sin. brokenness.
Ah, so it’s made you more hateful.
@@thescoobymikeWhat a terrible thing to say! How do you come to that conclusion?
We all sin & one mortal sexual sin is no worse than another. To single out same sex attraction as worse than any other sexual sin one struggles with seems the height of hypocrisy, which in my mind is even worse. We all need to learn this. God bless.🙏❤️
So simple and succinct. Concupiscence. Amazing. Thanks Fr. Mike.
November 4, 2023
you consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning?
Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
Thank you so much everyone for sharing a chapter of your story with us. Please pray for me to help unite my sufferings to Lord Jesus' cross. Asking for the intercession of martyr St. Charles Lwanga; St. Valentine patron saint of love, young people, and marriage; St. Agatha martyr of purity; St. Mary of Egypt a sex addict turned saint; and St. Augustine of Hippo Doctor of Grace to our Lord Jesus for help to unite our crosses so they can be stepping stones to sanctity to be with Him forever in Heaven.
I love you all. God bless you. Hope your week is full of light and peace.
Amen!🙏❤️
Always praying for you
@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse It always means so much! If you celebrate, hope you are having a nice Day Light Saving's Day! Prayed for you and your son in my Rosary this morning. God bless you. Hope you enjoy your week.
@@TrixRN Thank you again, Theresa. You're always so pleasant!
Thank you Father Mike
"if it wasn't this, it would be something else." that hit hard
Thanks!
Thank you for your generous gift!
God bless you Father Mike and everyone in CIY,❤️
We are called to become saints, to be perfected in charity, to grow in holiness. Not only are we called to that, it is now made possible through Jesus Christ. The God who is Love fashioned us in His Image. We are made to love as He loves. In Jesus Christ, we are now also being capacitated - to use a term frequently used by the early father and Bishop Ireneaus of Lyons - made capable - by the grace of His Redemption - of actually loving with God's love. "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16).❤️❤️❤️
Amen! The world and all of us in it could recall and use God's Love in this unnerving time. ❤🙏
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So very true
Pray without ceasing.🙏❤️
God bless Father Mike
⚠️Reminder- clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday!🕐🕰⏱⏰
Thanks ro the reminder. Fall Behind one hour
Why? What do you mean
@@United_Continental_767 Daylight Saving Time ends in U.S. & Canada. We set the clock back 1 hour when we go to bed Saturday night.
Ah, thanks. Does that mean that CIY will be released an hour later?
The time changes at 2:00am on Sunday morning.
Thank you father
Thanks Fr Mike, There is a great opportunity to work toward sainthood if one has this problem. It is a challenge but worth working on, as is any challenge in life. God Bless.
The good Lord has brought me and my husband a same sex attracted neighbor. By providence I have been cooking him dinner once a week and showing him Christs love. I don’t know if he knows if I am a Catholic but I pray for him as I make the food. We never know how our Lord is using us to reach the suffering. May the good Lord be with you all ❤
Why pray for souls in Purgatory? When the soul leave the body, the time of merit ceases. It is our doctrine, duty and privilege to pray for them similarly when a friend asks us for prayers. When we intercede for them, not only do we we help them, we also learn about God's love for us . 11/4/2023.
He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
Man oh man! That was so so well put. I've seen some of your talks so heard bits, but don't apologise for the length - it all needed to be said here. This effects us all and we all do have struggles in one thing or another and yeah the ladder - that's what we should do with it all, surrender it all to Jesus! We don't want sins in our life - we want to get to heaven. "Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow". Amen!
Mt12
44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”
So we need Jesus in our lives to fill us with good stuff too
I seriously love these podcasts ❤
God bless you father.
Rather than having homosexual stuff being forced into our faces always, I treat everyone by the golden rule always regardless. But the first comment I stand by Father. This part of my experience too.
Good job Fr Mike
Sexuality is ordered to the good things of conjugal love. For a baptised individual, this is sanctified by the Sacrament of Matrimony united by the conjugal love of man and woman, indissoluble and an openness to the procreation of life. Same Sex attraction or Homosexual acts are a distortion of the actual nature of the sexual act. If these tendencies challenge us, surrender it to Jesus 🙏
Thank you Father
November 4, 2023
I am looking for people to please take a moment and pray with me for Souls in Purgatory. Can you help?
According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory:
Eternal Father,
I offer You the most precious blood
of thy Divine Son, Jesus,
in union with the Masses said
throughout the world today,
for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory,
for sinners everywhere,
for sinners in the universal Church,
for those in my own home,
and in my family. Amen.
In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
We are simply praying for the salvation of any soul who is dying. That is why Jesus asked that a new religious order be founded who would continuously pray the Chaplet for the souls of dying sinners, because it will offer a continuous defense for any souls who might be dying unprepared in any part of the world.
@@KB_2161 tell me more about this religious order.
@@KB_2161 Amen
I have many friends and know MANY who “unite this struggle to the “Cross of Christ”. Many who have chosen to “reckon with the other” and have married and now have children. They still struggle BUT they constantly with spouse and community offer the struggle to Christ.
Pray for non hererosexuals, no one has to deny himself like they have when they want to follow Jesus
❤🙏 Praying
Thank you 😞
@@SitOnPickle be strong, people of your orientation would deny you, people of your religion would deny you, but He will not
Everything Father shared in this lesson was excellent!! It was handled with extreme grace, and I'm in agreement with all of it.
I can't help but think of how our world has become so Very lost permeated in a way that sinful behavior is glorified, encouraged, and to be tolerated. I could give lots of examples. Just two are that couples living together before marriage, are never to be ashamed of that, and having babies before is alright also. That homosexuality is another that is to be celebrated and has become so normalized that I believe it's led thousands of confused hurting young people in that direction. No one will convince me there's always been a large population that's had that tendency they just hid it.
Talk about one heck of a broken world we are living in. Yes, there's always been sin and brokenness but the past couple generations have gone on the rails. Instead of working on the brokenness is all about tolerating, glorifying, and celebrating it.
Makes me so sad for us all.
I pray for this broken world and those that I love living in it everyday. Just not sure we can ever get the pendulum swung back as far out as it's gone. 😢🙏🤲🙏
Agreed
I agree with you, but God will heal this world again. I believe that time is coming soon. It may come through a chastisement, but His plan is always for the ultimate good of His children.🙏🏻
@@davidlorrianderson9284 oh yes, and there's been numerous warnings. 🙏🤲🙏
Day 308. 🙏🙏🙏
Jesus have mercy on me, single people, and Your underground Church 😢❤😢❤😢❤😢
What do you mean, "underground church?" 🙃
Word.
This is so hard! I have four grandchildren who are homosexual!
If it is not that, it will be something else! We are all broken, carrying multiple crosses! Pray and pray. I offer Holy Mass on the birthday of my children for spiritual blessings. That is the best gift I can give to them.
I like compassion and kindness despite the firmness of the Church. We must indeed be kind and welcoming to those who feel that way, especially, if they're baptized. Praying for them and having "no judgment" conversations are two ways of helping those who feel like they're confused. Without the possibility of a creation, the act is indeed not in line with God or even nature's purpose. Everything has to have a reason and logic according to even atheistic or scientific thinking. Thus, making pleasure as the only outcome for a union contradicts with the scientific theory of evolution and also with God's plan/advice of "be fruitful and multiply" to humans. Embracing any sort of relationship just because one needs a genuine friend is not good as it may still not fulfill the motive of genuine friendship and might even get one in a complicated life down the road. I hope there are many more discussions on this topic between the religious folks and those who are not religious. Only then, there can be a well informed decision for each person. May God guide us all and help those who need discernment and wisdom. Amen. Thank you, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension! God bless
I went back to God he has forgiven me all my sins in homosexuality I have Holy Spirit living in me !! I carry that cross every day to fight my demons of homosexuality but I overcome those feelings!!! Going to church Bible study reading the scriptures everyday !! I’m on new spiritual journey with God Iam saved born again I look forward to eternal life