33:50 Before my first confession, I read that one Saint, probably St. Bonaventure, advised to always start your confession with the most shameful sin on your mind, and to confess it clearly. That way, the rest of the confession would have much smaller hurdles. That has been so helpful. Another thing for me is looking at the priest. How these men sit there and listen intently, nodding as I speak, trying to understand and discern what I am confessing. Those memories are among the ones where I feel loved the most.
The simple concept of disciplining oneself for the sake of the exercise of virtue has been extremely powerful to me since I became Catholic in 2023. There are several temptations I could name whose intensity has dried up to almost nothing (at least to this point) because the logic of avoiding the sin attached to them through the exercise of virtues (chastity, patience, etc.) is so unassailable. To be sure, other temptations I've never wrestled with before have sprung up - especially spiritual ones such as scrupulosity and the backhanded pride and minimizing of divine grace that are inherent in that particular issue. Scrupulosity takes our previous self-absorbed tendency of wanting grace and mercy for ourselves and unmitigated judgment for those who offend us and turns it on its head - "Overflowing grace & mercy for you but unmitigated judgment and wrath for me, because I know better and I see how truly sinful I am." As if I know my sin better than Christ...Lord have mercy...and I know (intellectually at least) he does.
I honestly would love to translate your videos and podcasts to Spanish so as to get to my friends and family, and many more people who maybe don't fully understand English. This could do so much good on hispanic people. Keep up the amazing work Matt, I truly admire it.
When Fulton Sheen made that quote, the underlying culture still accepted much of what Christianity taught, but not the theology of the Catholic Church. Today, we are more like the culture that St. Paul faced. Whereas for St. Paul the culture had not been exposed to the teaching of Christianity, today the culture has heard and rejected it. But in both cases the oposition is the same.
To be honest I’d say much of the culture today has NOT been exposed to the tradition of Christianity. When I came to the church I had some vague stereotypes and a very sparse understanding. I realized that I knew basically nothing about the faith. Increasingly, people are growing up with almost zero exposure, it’s back to pagan times
Most people I know have a severe lack of understanding of Christianity. Literally most atheists out there think the Christian God is one that's visible, material, complex, fallible, and can coexist with other "gods". They make up questions like "if God created the Universe, then who created God?" and "why do you believe in your God but deny Zeus/etc? Aren't they the same claims?" Many believe that Jesus is meant to be some sort of demigod and the Father is something like Zeus. Most people in the West severely lack the very basics, and ask questions that would've been seen coming out of converts from Paganism. World's crazy, I tell you.
I tthink this is thr best I've heard Matt speak. It was such a lovely mixture of Godly wisdom, truth, desire for good and Australian flair that I thoroughly enjoyed. This helped me undersrand my brothers in Christ better (as a Pentecostal woman). Thank you Matt 🙏
To the monthly men's rosary thing, I'd just like so say: “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
Absolutely spectacular description of Lust as the antithesis of Christ's Sacrifice. Lust demands the sacrifice of the other's dignity for our consumption. That's corrosive and emasculating to the soul. Opposed to this destruction is Christ who sacrificed Himself for our dignity and reward. He took the penalty we rightly deserve and instead, gave us the reward He deserved. For God, all life is sacred. We know this because He died to preserve our lire for eternity. He makes all things new, especially the broken.
"Yes, I believe all that, but what am I to DO? (PRACTICALLY)" This has been the thought pounding in my head with all this confusion and loss of purpose and meaning. I am a sincere follower of Christ, but if I'm being 100% honest, I feel the most difficult battle for me to fight has nothing to do with mustering up the will to sacrifice, and EVERYTHING to do with figuring out what to sacrifice for and about. I want to love my family righteously, so what practical steps do I need to take to start doing that? This question is something I WISH someone could help me understand. If someone gave me a list of all the things I need to do, I feel like I could do that so proficiently... But when I'm left to my own devices to come up with that list in my own, I can't help but feel like an incompetent idiot "sacrificing" for nothing.
I think of three things that might help you. (I assume your catholic in all of these, but if you are merely Christian you can do it all but confession) Go to confession, this will strengthen your will against temptations. Get a spiritual director, they can help you work out how to live the best. Join a group of Catholic men to share life and be good friends with. That might help, having a brotherhood.
Also more directly practical tips, I have your same experience in some ways in terms of loving my family righteously, I struggle with that. As a child, obey your parents. As a husband, while you should exercise headship in your family, if your wife is not submitting, don’t complain about it, just accept it. Get back to the basics. If you have a wife “love your wife as Christ loved the church”, you might have heard this but one common definition of love is to will the good of another, so see what is good for your wife and then seek to get her it, whether it be a gift, or doing the dishes, or having a conversation with her, taking her out on a date. If you have children, your duty from the Lord is to raise them up in the catholic faith if you are catholic, if you aren’t and are merely Christian, of course you should raise them Christian too, also to raise them up humanly aswell, to support their education etc. Of course as a catholic myself as he said, look into the claims of the Catholic Church, and maybe you will find as I have, they are true, good and beautiful. Since you are a sincere follower of Christ, that is for your benefit. Pray and ask God for both what to do and the grace to do what is right. May the Lord be with you.
As a man, your duty and sacrifice is to do upon others what THEY need. What does your wife need? Does she need love, attention, companionship? Does she seek learning? Is there something she wants? Is she feeling overwhelmed or tired? Does she have her time to hang out with friends? What do your kids need? In their learning, basic necessities, Christian instruction, guidance? Of course, don't ever forget about your parents. Be there, especially as they grow old. Teach your family and lead them to God. Hold nightly prayers, get some Bible reading, do some rosary together. These are your first ministries. After you cover them, you should seek out what your neighbors and friends may need. Read the Beatitudes and live them. Ultimately, you should focus on yourself. To love others as you love yourself presupposes you love yourself. Take care of you, make sure you get your learning, prayers, free time, etc. I hope this was good enough for some practical ideas.
I think the best way to summarize everything is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you'd want to have done to yourself. This is a positive rule, meaning that it doesn't tell you what you _shouldn't_ do, but what you SHOULD do. It's a call to action. It's not "don't take other people's food", it's "give other people food"
33:50 Before my first confession, I read that one Saint, probably St. Bonaventure, advised to always start your confession with the most shameful sin on your mind, and to confess it clearly. That way, the rest of the confession would have much smaller hurdles. That has been so helpful.
Another thing for me is looking at the priest. How these men sit there and listen intently, nodding as I speak, trying to understand and discern what I am confessing. Those memories are among the ones where I feel loved the most.
I love how thick Matt's accent has gotten
I love an Aussie accent, me.
@rubberkid100 first thought I had
Must get stronger when he goes back to Australia. I’m the same way with my Brooklyn accent - rarely emerges in full-force outside of home.
@@taciturntacitus7745 was gonna point this out
I’m the same with my Scottish one. You have to tone it down a bit so people hear everything you’re saying. 😂
I'm not a catholic but I listened to this today and it was super funny and insightful. Thank you for your work!
1) Don't fight
2) Never think about sex
3) Never give in to peer pressure
4) Never risk it all
5) Never ask directions
Monthly Men's Rosary outside the Sydney Cathedral would be the perfect place to find a husband for single Catholic ladies
Classic Matt. And yes, Cardinal Pell, pray for us, and I have absolutely no problem saying that. He did his purgatory here on earth.
No one deserves hell, I pray for everyone
The simple concept of disciplining oneself for the sake of the exercise of virtue has been extremely powerful to me since I became Catholic in 2023. There are several temptations I could name whose intensity has dried up to almost nothing (at least to this point) because the logic of avoiding the sin attached to them through the exercise of virtues (chastity, patience, etc.) is so unassailable. To be sure, other temptations I've never wrestled with before have sprung up - especially spiritual ones such as scrupulosity and the backhanded pride and minimizing of divine grace that are inherent in that particular issue. Scrupulosity takes our previous self-absorbed tendency of wanting grace and mercy for ourselves and unmitigated judgment for those who offend us and turns it on its head - "Overflowing grace & mercy for you but unmitigated judgment and wrath for me, because I know better and I see how truly sinful I am." As if I know my sin better than Christ...Lord have mercy...and I know (intellectually at least) he does.
The fight part was hilarious- I couldn't stop laughing. Thx for sharing- great presentation.
Kolbe is one of my favorite saints
Matt your humor is top😂❤. God bless you and your family
Excellent talk!
I needed to hear this tonight
We need more holy men in our society. God bless you all!
I honestly would love to translate your videos and podcasts to Spanish so as to get to my friends and family, and many more people who maybe don't fully understand English. This could do so much good on hispanic people.
Keep up the amazing work Matt, I truly admire it.
Great video Matt!
Loved it.
Praise God!!!!
Great talk Matt, and I was hugely honoured by the shoutout at the start :D
As a Catholic woman, I much appreciate this long overdue video on the lost virtues of masculinity. Thank you, Matt.
Now if we can get ONE speech on the lost virtues of femininity.
@@zsedcftglkjh As a Catholic woman, I agree 😄
that was awesome
I think this was one of your best. Bravo!!!! By the way, check out Daniel O’Connor/aliens.
Read “Christ in Dachau” by work camp survivor Father John Lenz for the true story of heroic priests under the NSDAP regime.
Ivica Kovac is a Croat 100%. Pozdrav bratu Hrvatu :)
When Fulton Sheen made that quote, the underlying culture still accepted much of what Christianity taught, but not the theology of the Catholic Church. Today, we are more like the culture that St. Paul faced. Whereas for St. Paul the culture had not been exposed to the teaching of Christianity, today the culture has heard and rejected it. But in both cases the oposition is the same.
To be honest I’d say much of the culture today has NOT been exposed to the tradition of Christianity. When I came to the church I had some vague stereotypes and a very sparse understanding. I realized that I knew basically nothing about the faith. Increasingly, people are growing up with almost zero exposure, it’s back to pagan times
Most people I know have a severe lack of understanding of Christianity.
Literally most atheists out there think the Christian God is one that's visible, material, complex, fallible, and can coexist with other "gods". They make up questions like "if God created the Universe, then who created God?" and "why do you believe in your God but deny Zeus/etc? Aren't they the same claims?"
Many believe that Jesus is meant to be some sort of demigod and the Father is something like Zeus.
Most people in the West severely lack the very basics, and ask questions that would've been seen coming out of converts from Paganism.
World's crazy, I tell you.
I tthink this is thr best I've heard Matt speak. It was such a lovely mixture of Godly wisdom, truth, desire for good and Australian flair that I thoroughly enjoyed. This helped me undersrand my brothers in Christ better (as a Pentecostal woman). Thank you Matt 🙏
To the monthly men's rosary thing, I'd just like so say:
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
Amen
Good video
Nice
Absolutely spectacular description of Lust as the antithesis of Christ's Sacrifice. Lust demands the sacrifice of the other's dignity for our consumption. That's corrosive and emasculating to the soul. Opposed to this destruction is Christ who sacrificed Himself for our dignity and reward. He took the penalty we rightly deserve and instead, gave us the reward He deserved. For God, all life is sacred. We know this because He died to preserve our lire for eternity. He makes all things new, especially the broken.
Where was this talk given?
In Australia?
Yes, in Sydney
"Yes, I believe all that, but what am I to DO? (PRACTICALLY)" This has been the thought pounding in my head with all this confusion and loss of purpose and meaning.
I am a sincere follower of Christ, but if I'm being 100% honest, I feel the most difficult battle for me to fight has nothing to do with mustering up the will to sacrifice, and EVERYTHING to do with figuring out what to sacrifice for and about.
I want to love my family righteously, so what practical steps do I need to take to start doing that? This question is something I WISH someone could help me understand. If someone gave me a list of all the things I need to do, I feel like I could do that so proficiently... But when I'm left to my own devices to come up with that list in my own, I can't help but feel like an incompetent idiot "sacrificing" for nothing.
I think of three things that might help you. (I assume your catholic in all of these, but if you are merely Christian you can do it all but confession) Go to confession, this will strengthen your will against temptations. Get a spiritual director, they can help you work out how to live the best. Join a group of Catholic men to share life and be good friends with. That might help, having a brotherhood.
Also more directly practical tips, I have your same experience in some ways in terms of loving my family righteously, I struggle with that. As a child, obey your parents. As a husband, while you should exercise headship in your family, if your wife is not submitting, don’t complain about it, just accept it. Get back to the basics. If you have a wife “love your wife as Christ loved the church”, you might have heard this but one common definition of love is to will the good of another, so see what is good for your wife and then seek to get her it, whether it be a gift, or doing the dishes, or having a conversation with her, taking her out on a date. If you have children, your duty from the Lord is to raise them up in the catholic faith if you are catholic, if you aren’t and are merely Christian, of course you should raise them Christian too, also to raise them up humanly aswell, to support their education etc. Of course as a catholic myself as he said, look into the claims of the Catholic Church, and maybe you will find as I have, they are true, good and beautiful.
Since you are a sincere follower of Christ, that is for your benefit. Pray and ask God for both what to do and the grace to do what is right.
May the Lord be with you.
As a man, your duty and sacrifice is to do upon others what THEY need.
What does your wife need? Does she need love, attention, companionship? Does she seek learning? Is there something she wants? Is she feeling overwhelmed or tired? Does she have her time to hang out with friends?
What do your kids need? In their learning, basic necessities, Christian instruction, guidance?
Of course, don't ever forget about your parents. Be there, especially as they grow old.
Teach your family and lead them to God. Hold nightly prayers, get some Bible reading, do some rosary together.
These are your first ministries. After you cover them, you should seek out what your neighbors and friends may need. Read the Beatitudes and live them.
Ultimately, you should focus on yourself. To love others as you love yourself presupposes you love yourself. Take care of you, make sure you get your learning, prayers, free time, etc.
I hope this was good enough for some practical ideas.
I think the best way to summarize everything is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you'd want to have done to yourself.
This is a positive rule, meaning that it doesn't tell you what you _shouldn't_ do, but what you SHOULD do. It's a call to action.
It's not "don't take other people's food", it's "give other people food"
Just wanted to be the first to comment!
Great talk Matt! Keep advancing the kingdom!
Peeeeping tom 😂😂😂😂😂😂 perfectly said , 😂😂😂😂 dont be that creep
_In conversation with the devil. . ._
*This must be freaking you out.*
_Points to Fatima._
Amen