Thank you Fr Mike. I wish there was someone like you to go into our schools to teach this.......some schools only have a few Cathluc teachers now😢.....Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Thanks Marian! It is so true about good Catholic teachers being needed in today's society. I cherish the fax that I had mostly Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) as teachers when I attended grade & high school. I pray for God to Bless you also. ❤🙏
Amen! The very real problem I face teaching a class called LifeWorks, which embraces the dignity of human life is that it is too Catholic for the Catholic schools and sometimes they do not invite us back😢
Yes. Good, true, beautiful. Let's also acknowledge that the Church's requirement of a 6 month (some places 12 month) engagement prior to marriage is discouraging engaged couples to remain chaste when they're ready to marry each other right now; not 6 or 12 months from now. (And yes, all details and topics of life should be discussed prior to engagement and related decisions made).
Praying for our culture that has fallen into cohabitation as a norm. 🙏Lord, convict us of what is sin in Your Eyes...help us to turn back to Your ways....HELP US, LORD!
So true...I have both a niece & nephew being married within a few months of one another. Both have been living with their partners for a year or two. They both went to Catholic school. Yet neither is having a Catholic marriage. They live in a super progressive area. This is "normal" to them. I do find it sad.
@@patriciadavis2514 I actually have the same thing in my family except both of them have conceived a child. The only thing different is that they both got married in the Catholic church before people were aware that they were with child. Since then both children have been baptized. Both of these couples are in the military and I hope that their marry will remain strong.💛🙏
Polygamy, Incest, Free-unions (cohabitation,.concubinage), and sexual acts before or outside of marriage are also offences against the dignity of marriage
Greetings! my dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ and the CIY community. Christ is the model of chastity. The Gospel does not change we are one who has to change. Deny yourself means to die to yourself! You are loved by Jesus Christ, repent and the Kingdom God is at hand. Lack of trust between the two who intend to marry is not good. Free union, cohabitation, and trial marriages makes us sad. People are not things. Things are meant to be used and people are meant to be loved. Love wants to stay forever. You are gift of love, so be happy. Let's pray for Fr Mike Schmitz and all the clergy. Will be praying for each other and please pray for me too. Thank you and have a wonderful day. Amen!
I have been married 55 years. As a young bride, my husband made it clear to me that “ Divorce is not in my lexicon” This made me very secure in his love which has only deepened over our long union. We consider ourselves to be lucky, but it is much more than that. We are happy and blessed because we did it God’s way! ❤️🙏
So true - going through this right now, my youngest son moved in with his girlfriend - very sad for me, didnt want to listen to me, they getting married this Saturday. i pray God forgive him and bless his marriage and let them not be a statistic of the 80% who end up getting divorced. please pray for him and his wife.
The sin of cohabitation (free union) has become as commonly accepted in society, even among Catholics, as the sin of contraception. It is very frustrating to experience even in my own family. I have personally failed in my attempts to explain why it is so wrong. God please bless us, bless our families, forgive us our sins, help us to repent and do better.
I keep faith. Even as I continue to struggle to support my children and myself I trust in you Jesus. Being a single mom things can be hard raising them alone. My husband passed years ago. Both of my children are autistic. I started homeschooling them last year and they are now thriving but unfortunately my hours to work are limited. I suffered a heart attack two years ago and Im battling lupus Lord I’m overwhelmed please heal me and give me strength. As I struggle to pay my rent each month and as I struggle to buy groceries. Honestly I want to give up. But I know God will make a way. Where there seems to be no way. I have faith! God has not forgotten me. Faith First!
You and your family are in my prayers. 🙏 Please check with social security to see if there is any kind of assistance for your two autistic children, I know of a family that are getting help. Try checking with your parish and see if there could be some help there. You have the faith of Job. May God continue to Bless you and send assistance your way.❤🙏
Jesus loves you and your children so much! I will include you and your children in my prayers! Blessings for strength and all the healing you need!!! Thank you for reaching out! 🙏♥️
Still just laying around the house not doing much. I get really bad coughing fits & still have a low-grade fever. I’m hosting a family celebration Saturday & praying I’ll be better. Folks are coming from all over & I don’t want to spread anything.
Polygamy, incest, child-abuse and live-ins are grave evils which the Church condemns. I join Fr Mike in his sadness for such a state of affairs. Yet I'm consoled that the Church offers hope as Jesus loves everyone of us whom he has redeemed on the Cross and i pray for them 🙏 🙏
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. 11/8/2023.
Early on in the ‘catechism in a year’ I was tempted to stop listening because I’m simultaneously listening to the Bible in a year. The temptation was, “ehhh you’re not getting anything out of it, maybe just devote yourself to the Bible in a year.” My goodness am I glad I kept listening, so many of these episodes pierce right to the heart. Thank you Father Mike and ascension.
Thank you. Believe me ,I need all the prayers I can get especially dealing with abusive felons who got to get ugly when I am just doing the normal thing that every does. Have a book that needed a little glue to repair - nope that is a crime to some . Welcome to an example of what I deal with ever since my move to the state of Washington to be with family I haven't seen in a long time. I have regretted coming here ever since. I am disable.
If a person cannot love forever, that person cannot love even for a day. The trial marriages and live-ins have truly ruined the lives of many people. Emotionally and physically. Especially those who never get to marry and live in a state of uncertainty about their relationship status. Similarly, many marriages or affairs make complications due to one person not being 100% there in a relationship. The children and the spouse suffer. The abuse of young ones is among the worst sins and makes the sinner even worse than an animal. Incest, even with consent, destroys the societal, familial, and human boundaries. Causes many complications. All of this is not just wrong when we think about God but also wrong on logical and moral grounds. May all of us stay protected from these sins, and may the society get guidance from God to turn away from these. Amen. Thank you for this important analysis, Fr Mike! God bless
“The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
A trial marriage is an exercise in foolishness - I pray for our daughter every day as she has been cohabiting for several years and will marry an atheist man outside the church in February of next year - there are crosses we all bear - this is one that is heaviest for me 😞❤️🙏✝️
I'm so sorry! I feel your pain as a parent who has watched 2 of my chidren making decisions that are against the commandments but have learned I can't speak of it. In fact my daughter just recently severed us from her family. The son that chooses to live a sinful lifestyle rarely even comes around. Even if we say nothing I think they just don't like the reminder of their sins. They were raised in the Church and Cathoilic schools. It is very heartbreaking.
@@kathywiens9852 You are in my prayers. 🙏 I pray for my brother as his only child has entered into a forbidden abnormal relationship that goes against everything we consider normal. 🥶🙏
@@dianefrank3688 thank you! Reading comments from parents on a regular basis on our Catholic podcast reminds me of why the past couple of years I've included in part of my daily prayers not only the conversion of my own children and loved ones but all of those who have loved ones, especially parents, praying for their conversions. There's thousands of us. 🙏🤲🙏💞💝
Day 312...Offenses against the dignity of marriage 💑...Fr.Mike ..thankyou for your time in your priestly ministry...Praying for you and all in the Ascension team..
"Make of yourself a gift of love- that is your vocation" I LOVE this. I believe I am called to be single for the sake of the Kingdom, concecrated to Jesus through Mary... and "my vocation is to love." Thats brilliant. I can totally identify with that. Praise be to God! ❤
Prayer for Healing III Lord, You invite all who are burdened to come to you. Allow Your healing Hand to heal me. Touch my soul with Your compassion for others; touch my heart with Your courage and infinite Love for all; touch my mind with Your Wisdom, and may my mouth always proclaim Your praise. Teach me to reach out to You in all my needs, and help me to lead others to You by my example. Most loving Heart of Jesus, bring me health in body and spirit that I may serve You with all my strength. Touch gently this life which you have created, now and forever. Amen. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much, Fr Mike, for this great teaching. Some of these things i've never heard before. Praying for you, and all on CIY . God Bless. Claire.
There are so many young couples who do not marry, for the sole purpose of receiving financial benefits from the government. It is a sad situation, but our government rewards mothers who are unmarried. It is time for the church to stand up against this, and make this known. Please Father Mike, help our society to address this!
I appreciate the teaching of marriage but, I wish that it would talk more about Molestation being so wrong. What we can do and what the church does more. God Bless..
Trial marriage is just an excuse of cohabitation, they don’t want to take responsibility which is so rampant amongst the world nowadays, selfishness is the term
Really wish it unpacked the why and discussed historical examples. Near zero videos doing a deep dive into polygamy and why it was allowed in the early church (old testament)
I would like to know what Father Mike's source is for his statistic that only 10% to 20% of marriage survive cohabitation. Thank you Father Mike and the whole CIY team for all of your work.
Many African tribes have a centauries' old tradition of polygamy. AND many tribes demand that a woman proves her fertility before she is considered marriageable. So where does one go from there?
We are to spread the Gospel to all nations. That’s my take. I imagine if thru no fought of their own they never hear the Gospel message, as stated in the CCC, that is a different response.
The missionary mandate. “Having been divinely sent to the nations that she might be ‘the universal sacrament of salvation,’ the Church, in obedience to the command of her founder and because it is demanded by her own essential universality, strives to preach the Gospel to all men”:* “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you always, until the close of the age.”* - I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church, CCC 849
This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience-those too may achieve eternal salvation.* - I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church, CCC 847 Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.”* - I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church, CCC 848 Hope this helps a bit
“When we came to Jesus” where is you should say did we come together in Christ. We make baptismal promises To bring our children into a church that believes in Christ Jesus, so that we may see God a real flesh and blood presence
I have a question. If a man is married within the church and not within the state, but his wife loses no essential rights from this lack of "legal marriage" (other than the right to legally divorce him), is that a sin. It seems to me that an arragement in witch the sacramental husband, by not being legally married, couldnt divorce wouldnt be an issue. But is that a sin against trust. After seeing so many men losing homes, children and life savings from divorce, is it lawfull for him not want to give this weapon to his wife (women initiate the vast majority of divorces)? We live in a society in witch a "baby daddy" has superior legal protection than an "ex husband".
So I was having a conversation with a loved one about homosexuality ...the catholic church calls those with same sex attraction to live a chaste life ....she said I don't think God wants us to be unhappy ? I didn't have the words to respond? Also I shared that when we sin our sin is never just personal but always affects others ...she responded how can a homosexual couple living together adversely affect others ? Again I didn't have the right words to respond 😕....any help ?
God never said we would be happy in this life - no where can I recall in the Bible does God every promise happiness - happiness is of the world, and joy is knowing, loving and serving God in this world and in eternal life - and that entails agape love - dying to oneself love, self-sacrificial love and not self-centered pleasure seeking love that is exhibited not only in same sex attraction but also in heterosexual couples cohabiting without being married. It is foolishness.
I went ahead to the marriage part I know divorce is not good but what happens when a father doesn't want to take responsibility Voorhees children and is addicted or physically abusive they separate but there is no guarantee set the children will be taken care of I know there is annulment but that is a little confusing I watched an hour long class. If I'm not mistaken there are valid reasons for annulment if I'm not mistaken in that case you may remarry
I’m not sure but heard someone in the Catholic community state this would be a “near occasion of sin” before marriage. You could always ask Dr Scott Sollom for next Monday’s supplement to CIY
Everything you are saying is true, but it is of this world without Christ. You need to say that when two people come together as one flesh and you suspect that it is carnal do you challenge them and ask them if they had Christ in their lives in their marriage of one flesh.
I suggest that you say relationships in Christ are acceptable before a God that they can see as Christ incarnate. Why can’t you just say it father when two people come to you for marriage preparation? Do you take them to the confessional before you interview Christi Persona
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:10-12
❤Heavenly Father, grant your healing touch to those who are facing physical or emotional challenges. Bring them comfort, strength, and restoration through Christ our Lord. Amen. ❤
Father in your dialogue with the young people do you ever confront them in Christ as you should when you know that they’re having sex outside of marriage. Can’t you do it in a confessional. Now your Bert re-broadcasting what you do with them about your concerns. I hear crowing in the courtyard. Denies Christ.
❤Think, O God, of our friend who is ill, whom we now commend to Your compassionate regard. Comfort him upon his sickbed, and ease his suffering. We beg for deliverance, and submit that no healing is too hard for the Lord, if it be His will. We therefore pray that You bless our friend with Your loving care, renew his strength, and heal what ails him in Your loving name. Amen.
Lord, Hold my family in Your Strong Hands I trust You with their hearts, their thoughts, their futures and their very lives. Guard them and lead them through Christ our Lord. Amen.
