Fr. Mike Schmitz | Real Prayer | 2021 Steubenville Main Campus Youth Conference 

I’m 67 years old, I was raised Catholic, I went to Catholic schools, but I have never learned as much as I have listening to Father Mike! Thank you for showing me the way!

I am a 40 year old man and I have learnt soo much.Thank you my Lord, thank you for sending your Holy Spirit for gifts like Father Mike.God Bless you Father Mike and all who are watching.

I wish I could sit down with Fr. Mike and just talk to him for hours

I've been in a fog until I started watching this yt channel. Fr. Mike is a blessing. I hope he's around for a long time.

Thank you Father. I am back to my faith again in Jesus.

"God is always speaking...God is constantly trying to make Himself known."

"Because Jesus has won the victory, and it's never too late"

One of the best hours I've ever spent on RU-vid. Glory be! Thank you, God!

Father Mike, remember you are blessed. Keep up the good fight. Don't go gently into night. May Lord keep you, watch over you. Thank you.

Thanks You father Mike Schmitz You conference is very helpful because the pray makes me be more closet by god

I watch most of your videos, refreshing to listen too your message when I’m able……..great work for the church bringing people young and old back to worship in our Catholic faith……God Bless you and your ministry

Fr Mike Schmitz speaks to me in clear words of the heart whether during a Homily at Mass, a podcast or a Steubenville Conference. He meets people where they are at and helps them take a next step closer to God. He is a gifter speaker and shares his love of the Father/ Abba/ Dad!

Thank you Heavenly Father for the way Fr. Mike explains things. I realise now that Praise (first) pre-reminds me of all of God's qualities: love, power, knowing, wisdom etc. which in turn reminds me of the confidence we have in God, through Jesus. It reminds us of who we are in Christ and of that mighty power working in us.

Lord, hear our prayers!

Father, you're awesome, as usually. And if I learn in your campus, I'd definitely stop you every time. Thank you for being a light!

such a great talk...Fr Mike you made me cry...prayer , or how to pray has remained a bit of a mystery all of my life...this has clarified significantly for me how to pray....your talks on the Mass have been so good too...we are so blessed by God to have such a speaker like you

That was really good advice. The only thing I would change would be making prayer a hardship in any way. You (Fr. Mike) have a grace from God that pulls you to pray. The rest of pretty much all of us really don't. So, myself, experiencing that lack of motivation, I started studying why some ppl feel a natural pull to pray while others don't. Being a Catholic, it took me a long while to get license to explore other forms of prayer. It wasn't until I read Thomas Merton's work that I felt I was in good company. In short, Walking Meditation is an awesome method for prayer. I made this process up out of a number of different traditions: 1. You wake up, you thank God. 2. You stand up and run to the restroom like a crazy person and thank God you have the ability to do this. 3. You randomly pray Our Fathers and Hail Mary's through the day 3. You continue through your day 'leaving everything better than you found it' as an act of love and appreciation of the things God has gifted you with (kinda like Japanese Tea Ceremonies- everything touched is done with love and appreciation (i.e. thank God for the water to wash your dishes, for the way it feels on your skin, for how beautiful it is as it's running over the colors and reflecting off the light of the dishes)). 4. You pray special prayers as they come to you to pray throughout your day, not waiting to pray, just doing them right there and then. 5. You ask God for a symbol to remind you to thank Him (Everytime I see a hawk, I know He wants me to give Him praise, for example). 6. You lay down and ask God to cover you in His blood and thank Him for spending the day with you and protecting you as you go to sleep. Meditative prayer, rosaries, and all the rest of the different types are no longer work to do. Walking Meditation makes them a normal part of my day and something I look forward to doing as "special" prayers.

Father Mike I enjoyed listening with you Keep it up ! You’re inspired a lots of peoples especially they want to hear the good scriptures from our almighty God end to spread the words how God loves us unconditionally…

In my opinions brothers and sisters the best to pray to our Almighty God when you’re sincerely like when feel you need to talk to God like your best friend not only when we’re miserable and have a huge obstacles on life . God is waiting fir us all the time , we need to get used to it even in our daily life , whatever we have unexpected problems if God is with you all the time and you will feel fearless he’s the one who will give you peace and the most important to meditate and I promise God will not disappointed you just give you the 100% to surrender yourself and to trust him … I’m sharing this to you all because I’ve been there and I want you brothers and sisters. To experience how God is merciful , humble , forgiving and always there for us …. I’m gonna add you guys to my prayers who reads this comments Amen .

Amen Father, memorized prayers are the best……Thank you…

The story at 43:00 is the heart of the Christian walk. Love God even when it hurts.

Fr Mike you always have clear advice for our spiritual growth. Thank you. God Bless. Claire.

AMEN!

When God speaks to you he must talk fast!

Wow!

Really good.

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Fr , how can you not know that The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (!!) is about redemption? Are you being sarcastic when you said you might see how Aslan represents Jesus?

Praying is the fruit of pride, not to pray is the fruit of humility.

Always try to rationalize the obsession with imaginary beings and the belief in everything contrary to science and especially logic.