"Family Life" | Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (Fr. Mike's Homily)  

Jesus Mary and Joseph save our family from this crisis we are facing. Amen

Brave New Family by GK Chesterton touches on the fact that the strangest people we may ever know are in our family.

Thanks for this homily Father. Been struggling of late living with anti Catholic parents.

9:08 “Everyday is confusing” Thank you Fr. Mike, I appreciate how you said that. I for some reason resonated so much when you said that. There’s some sense of humanity when you said that. Which I don’t know how to describe. However, this video was well done and well said. Am doing my conformation and my teachers made us watch this video. Which I really enjoyed listening to. Once again, thank you Fr. Mike 🙏

Thank you Father for recognizing those of us who have been hurt so much from the ones who should love us the most, our families. Thank you for recognizing those who are alone, have never been married, do not have children and those closest to us are now gone 🙏🏻✝️💔

Thanks!

Please get to a TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS if you can. Abundant Reverence and MANY BLESSINGS !!! GOD LOVE YOU !!

Starting Bible in a year tomorrow following with the app, bible and notebook from bible in a year. 🙏🏻

God bless you Father Mike 🙏🏻✝️♥️ I’m praying for you please pray for me

This Mass is especially important to attend because it sets the tone for the new year. It reminds us to keep the 10 commandments as we are told to honor thy mother and father and to keep love between your brother 🙏

I love you Father Mike you explain so well

Thank you, Father Mike. Relationships in this world are often difficult and painful. but if we remain faithful to Jesus and Mary, and help everyone close to us also to love Jesus and Mary then we can look forward to the perfect family in Heaven. It’s a joyful feasting always with the largest most perfect family. Everybody loves everybody else. No one is upset angry offended, resentful jealous. Just pure joy and love for each and every soul in our perfect family - forever! Our deepest desires, and most ardent longings will be satisfied and fulfilled in heaven. Perfect love for all eternity.

Its that simple some people don't have to listen to this.

Happy New Year 2024 Fr. Mike and all Catholics around the world. God bless us all. 🙏💫🕊🤍🎉

How beautiful are the mornings in which I come to salute you, let us come with the greatest joy and rejoicing to greet you. (GM Virgin Mother)

Our Lord was not materialistic, having things is nice, yet it is Not everything. Love, kindness, caring, respect is more important. The family was poor and loving. How many are that way today? More interested in competing with the Jones’s. I had a widowed mother and she gave me what I needed. I had food, shelter, clothes and love. Too bad so many do not realize how lucky they are. My mother was a saint RIP ❤

Brilliant - thanks so much for your reflections on the reality of family and what darkness God enters into in order to bring light!

Thank you Fr. Mike for the wonderful words. Wishing you all a happy new year. ✝🙏

Happy New Year Father Mike and all the Catholic families who celebrate the Birthday of Jesus Christ our SAVIOR.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you Father

Father! This is so beutiful! Thanks to be a Priest! A Blessed New Year to you! ❤

Our priest said the letters in the word family is forget about myself I love you

Give me strength this New Year. Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking for your blessings as a single mom. I’m raising my children with strength and courage, despite the challenges I face with my sons being autistic. Lord as I struggle to pay my rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. I ask that you bless me with your wisdom and guidance, as I navigate parenthood on my own heal my lupus and heart disease and continue to give me strength to keep going so I may watch my sons grow into men. ❤

Word. Thanks Fr. Mike. I wish you all a blessed 2024! 🎈🎊🎉

Thank you, Father. Keeper. Really appreciated the examples you provided. Food for the journey in 2024. Blessings to you and all.

Oh right, and no nights spent on the streets, or truly thinking about being able to live, run to my house when it's over then,

Happy New Year and God Bless

Jesus teach us.

♥️! God bless you.

So, despite all my failures and thinking my sons would have been better off with a different mother, i guess I'm the one who was chosen for them.. i definitely love them and they know that, just had made several poor choices in life that i know affected them. Interesting...

Thank you Fr Mike Happy New year Wishing you health and happiness in 2024 May God continue protecting you and your family

Wow I learned something today Jesus owned NOTHING other than his clothes on his back!

Thank you for this homily; it came at just the right time, as this holiday, our traditional Christmas had to come to an end; everyone has different ideas and change is hard.

Happy New Year Fr.Mike...Thankyou for the Powerful Reflection of the Family..the reality of family...Lord thankyou for the amazing gift of Fr.Mike to us all..May the Lord bless and keep you in good health..Happy New Year 🙏 🎉🎉

Father Please pray for my family 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I’ve read some of these recent posts, Fr. Mike. The negative comments are from those who have yet to listen and “grow in wisdom, age, and grace!” So I pray for all priests & religious that Our Lord gives them the strength and “wisdom, age, and grace” to withstand the words generated by the evil one! Adoration today will be for you, Fr. Mike! God bless you always!!!🙏

Thank you !

Please pray for my son Blake to back home to Him.

Happy new year Fr. Mike🎉🎉🎉❤😊

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Not having stuff is freeing. I gotta get rid of my junk.

Happy New Year 🎉To everyone 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤

Hi Fr. Mike. I like that chasuble - never seen one like that before. Wishing you a happy and blessed New Year. Thank you for all that you share with us. You are a blessing to all of us.

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BELIEVE GOD THROUGH HIS SON: Some speak of God only; others speak of Jesus only; and neither is life eternal. In John 5:24, Jesus wants us to hear and receive his words, but to believe in God the Father. Jesus tells us knowing the only true God is eternal life. Everyone who believes in God through Jesus' words has everlasting life and shall not come into damnation but is passed from death to life. Believing in Jesus’ every word is the way, truth, and life that leads to the Father (John 14:6). We must hear Jesus in order to reach the only true God: the Father (John 17:3, 1 Corinthians 8:6). We must know them both.

You see that on social these days with people like "i don't owe my parents anything, they are a burden!" and then all of a sudden i understand abortion 🤯😭

Greetings Father Mike, Thoughts :- -> Feast Homily reflect with, "Spiritual Joy and Healing happens through Spiritual Kindness and Love towards Lord Jesus Christ in all aspects." -> A Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year to you Father, Team CIY, Team Ascension Press and Everyone. With regards, Ranjith Joseph (R.J)

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Father Mike: Just curious, did Jesus have any siblings.😇☦️🙏🙏✝️😇

Think I was born at the wrong time if there was a previous time when women were respected, so maybe I was born at the right time cause getting married to avoid starvation would make me stop eating.

Jesus wasn’t poor. He had enough gold, frankincense & myrrh to provide for his family for 30 years. And once he started ministering, he had enough $ to meet the needs of his followers. Wealthy women accompanied him & Judas stole plenty because he was the treasurer. Jesus always had everything he needed as an itinerant preacher. He never worried about lack. He knew Father God would provide

Notwithstanding the difficulties of the Nativity, I do not believe that the Holy Family lived in poverty. I do not believe they were rich, but believe they lived as the mainstream families lived in the times in which they lived.

Hi Father Mike. You were quoted as stating "from the moment you are baptized God has given you a role in the Church and job at every single Mass. And that job -with the ministerial priest-is to lift up the sacrifice of the Son to the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit so the Father is glorified and the world is saved." What does "so the Father is glorified" mean? I know I sound dense but the Father is already full of glory. I mean how can he be more glorified than he already is by our doing, by anything we do in worship? We don't bring any more glory to him by saying/professing it or believing in God's glory. God's glory is well beyond that, we are just tiny specks of importance, or even smaller compared to God's glory. Also, does "lift up the sacrifice of the Son" translate as acknowledging Jesus' death, the blood he shed to save us and the ACCEPTANCE of his sacrifice on our behalf? What does "lift up" really mean? All these questions come after this period of my life which includes a long time of blind obedience/just doing what God says even if I don't understand why I am doing it, accepting it, knowing he knows better than I. I don't feel any love towards anything or anyone, but mostly a determined adherence to God. I don't necessarily like some of the 'jobs' God wants me to do (I have kind of gone numb, cancelled me out, kind of like a 'I don't exist, only HE exists') but I do it because only he matters. I DO love, I don't feel love. I sometimes cannot even stand the persons I am kind to, but they never know it because God says be kind and I am. One thing, I am in awe every moment that I think of God. I talk to him throughout the day. I share everything, even when I feel anger towards him, lack of trust or am cynical about God. The cynical part scares me because I know he could smash me in that moment, but I bring it to him and ask him to work on me. So back to the other, maybe I am hung up on the nomenclature of spirituality but what do those things I ask above really mean??? Please pray for me - ALL who read this.

Yeah so what did they do move house,

Have you ever seen different agents switching around into the bodies of people who have some kind of mission, this mission bad intentions concerning me, I'm not in the loop. What is this please, it's out of control.

But why is it that the emphasis is only on honouring the dad? What about moms, who have given up their whole lives and hearts and careers to the family??

Yeah the Bible is funny, i thought it would be preaching or something and then it was like WHOAHHHHHHH these people need God 😂

Father. Please learn how to speak in a way that non Native speakers would be able to understand you. You sound like a teenager from California.

I pray you find Islam Father Schmitz. Catholicism died long ago.