It always consoles and mystifies me that Fr. was ordained the same year as I. We are well reminded not to compare ourselves to each other in this life. He is certainly glorifying God and building up the Church with his unique talents.
I am sure you are a priest. Touched by your humility I will offer my Prayers during today's Eucharistic adoration with LogosvoicetTv and Divine Retreat Centre Uk on RU-vid for your intentions.
Thank you for your ministry, Father Mike. You are truly a father to all. I love hearing you talk, when I view your podcasts. God loves you Father. We all love you.
God Bless you Father Mike, my son graduated college last year and shared some of your RU-vid videos with me, so we are both fans. Doctor Hahn, My wife and I converted to Catholicism in 2012 and while we were going through RCIA, we were reading (Rome sweet Home) and it was very much a key coming from a southern Baptist upbringing. God bless you both
Fr Mike, this is Deacon Rick, and I think a timely topic for a future conversation would be your advice to young priests, in light of the struggles some are having in our diocese.
One day I walked into the sacrasty and called out "Father?". My priest answered with "Daughter?". After we talked, I said "Thanks Dad" jokingly. Now I sometimes call him "Abba". I hope that isn't disrespectful but that is how I actually feel.
@@tony1685 Well, I disagree that everything we do must be clearly labeled and defined in the Bible ... in fact, that's what the pharisees argued, and look how wrong they were. But, to answer your question, the origins of the sacrament of confession can be traced to John 20:21-23. In this, Christ does two important things to His appointed ministers (i.e., who are clearly priests, since they have been ordered to perform sacrifice). First, He empowers them to forgive sin against God on His behalf; that much is plainly evident from the text. Second, He orders them to do as He has done ... and He has just empowered His appointed ministers to forgive sin. So too, the apostles could empower their ministers to forgive sin. And so it propagates in time until today. I hope that clears it up for you.
I think it would be cool to go to confession with my son should he be a priest. He would know how I really feel about my husband. His dad. From New Zealand 🇳🇿👍😊🙏📿🇳🇿
The good part is that you have enough strength to self control. In Father Mike's circumstances is that he loves being a Father. I sure hope he doesnt fall into temptation....Oh God.🙏🙏🙏
@@DarkAngel-cj6sx yes and 73 % boyfriends if the record for the North American college in Rome is correct nobody can say that a priests lite is normal natural no matter how brainwashed you are
It is the most terrible tragedy of the entire Church, all over the world, by all of the Christians; that all of the parishioners, don't say Mass for themselves and families and clergy. I'm not ordained by human hands, but trust me in this, I'm Very Very Very Ordained. I taught two protestants how to say Mass in minutes. I told them that I would prove to them that this works, and at 12 PM tomorrow, they would feel a buzzing sensation going through them. "That will be God going through them as I say Mass for them at 12PM," I told them. Exact at 11:55 AM the next day, I felt a buzzing sensation going through my body, like someone was saying Mass for me. They were just believing protestants and unordained, uneducated, and believers in Jesus, Our Lord and Savior. That is all, One male and One female. About 12 years ago, I said Mass for myself, and asked God to give me the knowledge of the future. About 9 years ago, I looked right into the future to see Obama win his election by 281 electoral college votes, "three days," before the voting took place. I immediately spread it all over Twitter and sent tweets off to Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC News, Kelly O'Donnell, Obama about seeing the final vote of 281; and the tweets are still on Twitter under Gary James Shields, on that time line spoken about above. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. You could have all of the Parishes, all over the planet, praying for you both to live another hundred years with age regressing body's. You could have some praying for you to have Angels with you to talk to, Healing Powers, the Ability to Walk in the Water, To be bullet proof, to be invisible whenever your need to be, to be able to levitate and fly, A N Y T H I N G ! ! ! 500,000,000 Masses all said on the same day for you two; and you would have snapped your fingers and things would have been done for you. There is still time. Time is of the Essence ! ! ! DON'T IGNORE ME ! I Speak from Experience, Verily. Ask me what to ask God to give to you and I will instantly pray and say Mass for you to receive it. Reply to me in this comment section, and I will do it for you. Faith is, replying to this message and telling me what you would want. The rest is up to me and God. Those who call upon the Name of the Lord, shall not be disappointed. ..............................................................
Any man who has no desire to be married to a woman should never be supernaturally married to the Bride of Christ. Any man who doesn't have a desire to be a father in the natural order should never become a father in the supernatural order.
what do you mean by " Any man who has no desire to be married to a woman should never be supernaturally married to the Bride of Christ. " ...you mean men who hate women ? or... ??
@@palmina77italiana It's not necessarily about men who hate women. The same essentials are necessary in being married to a woman and the supernatural bride of Christ (the Church). So if you lack in one then you also lack in the other.
@@palmina77italiana In what way? Isn't it pretty straight-forward? I thought the distinction is pretty clear as laid out by OP's and my comment. The Church (the supernatural bride of Christ) is not a woman, so there you have one clear example in how the relationship between Christ and the Church is not exactly, literally, the same as the relationship between a husband and wife. They're very similar, of course. But they're not literally the same because they're different in some parts (a wife and the Church, I mean.) One is a person (wife), the other is not a person (Church), so on and so forth...
Father Mike, when one of the students called you, "Dad," he was just testing you to see how you would react to being called "Dad," unless English was his second language. What if he had called you, "Papa?" Then how would you feel? I address the Lord as "Papa" at times because it sounds very loving and very dear to me.
Revelation 17 : 4 name one other religion other than Catholics that have purple scarlet and decked with gold and precious Stones? If you could name one other I will go look it up thank you
hmm. again something suggested about Mr. Schmitz :D I don't know I just begin to think he is a little bit fake with us, like playing a role in some movie, but no one can see his real face. He can't help himself to not try to flirt with women in some way and I don't like it, it isn't fair to them. I stop to listen to him almost completely, although I liked his homilies. maybe I'm a little too proud :D
Priests are being ordained to be Apostles of Christ and carry on His ministry. Calling a Priest "Dad" is disrespectful and coming from a teenager or young adult, is immature, they should know better. What would they call the Pope, "Grandpa"?
Respectfully, I recall many youths crying "Viva Papa!" to St. Pope John Paul II. He didn't seem to mind. God is Lord and Father. We are supposed to think of Him as both. Likewise his priests are called to spiritual fatherhood AS ministers of Christ. These things aren't in conflict.
@@OBNOXIOUSBLA13 Calling a Priest "Dad" is bad enough, calling the Pope "Dad" is disgusting! The proper way to address the Pope is "Holy Father" or "Your Holiness"! Youth these days have no respect for anybody and they need to be corrected when they have no clue what they're saying or doing.
The Bible clearly states that Jesus is our HIGH PRIEST & call no one Father ! Priests are not needed - we go to the Father through His son ! You do not need a priest to intervene for you - he is NOT a way to the Father - only Jesus !
Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey Mickey....*spits toothpaste and pukes on gag reflex* ...LOL...I can just imagine what it must be like for you to live with a bunch of teenagers coming in and out of the house with lack of privacy...as you said. It's not much different than being married (or common law married) with children...
Speaking of the concept of "father". I come from a small Catholic town and I perceived that the parish priest replaced, to a very significant degree, the fathers of the families of my town. The respect and authority that rightfully belonged to these very real fathers of very real families was thereby diminished by the parish priest "Father". It's something that fundamentally weakens Roman Catholic men, especially in contrast to most Protestant men.
It's not the problem of priest "father", but rather problem of lay fathers - maybe some of them didn't take enough effort as spiritual leaders of their families. For example, my father was only nominal catholic and for me this gap was filled by my gradpa (rest in peace his soul), who was exceptionally devoted and righteous man. He was and still is the best example for me 😉 And we (me and my cousins) even called him "father", not granpa 😃
Not the case. Lack of proper formation and catechetics is the reason for weak Catholic fathers when any. I'd question the veracity of your statement too though, protestantism being a mere shadow compared to the depth and theology of the church.
The hardest thing must be to be a deep dyed sinner yourself, and at the same time try to convince someone that their sins are forgiven. It is what I call being a hypocrite.
