"He Leadeth Me: As Long As..." | 2nd Sunday of Lent (Fr. Mike's Homily)  

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Oh Jesus help me with the sorrow in my heart . Losing three children ,two brothers , . Today is anniversary of death of my son Kevin at six yrs old in 1976 . I'm still not right . I'm begging for some consolation .!! 🙏😭

Pllease thank you. 🌿 fr Schmitz.

💙 Tremendous! Thank you for the clarity re. The need for us to understand & its claws in trying to stay in control! This takes away the trust/faith in God 💙

Never forget that the Lord is a friend, who listens and knows your deepest parts. The book called The Jesus Response by John Pohl was beautiful.

Thank you Father Mike. You always find a way to open our eyes to the truth! May GOD continue to inspire you so we can be fed with his word! 😇🥰😁🙏🙏🙏 AMEN!!!

Suas bênção Padre Deus abençoe você na misao paz e bem .

Never cried so much during a Homily like I have listening to this. God is good ❤

“If I need to know why, I will never know trust!”

This was incredibly powerful ~ we are still processing it. Truly this will stay with us & we will come back to it. Thank you beyond measure. We do treasure your homilies Fr Mike.

7 weeks ago our son Patrick was killed by a random shooter in Croquet, MN. The only consolation I find is listening to St. Faustina's diary of Divine Mercy...where I have learned about..."Holy indifference "...that whether good or bad happens we Trust. Thank you Fr. Mike because that is what you are speaking of.

Thank you Father Mike! TRUST WITHOUT THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND . JESUS I TRUST In You ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Jesus, I love my son please help me live for my Owen. My heart is broken. I repent for all of my many sins and cried in confession. Please pray for me, father. My son is worried about me. He loves me. I love him.

God please continue to protect me and my two children. Father keep me encouraged because being a single mother with autistic children is overwhelming and challenging. I’m desperately trying to provide for them. Thankfully you Father God have provided this far and for that I AM so grateful. You are the God of possible. Please continue to protect me and my boys. “When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall” AMEN!

Jesus please help my mom get better we love you Jesus Christ and thank you for everything you do in our lives 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

This serman reminds me of the struggle of the old testment of Job

❤❤❤It is good for me to cling to my Lord and my God and place the Hope of my Salvation in Him. Amen ❤❤

Adding Brit & Agnes to my prayer list.

Ty God for this great priest

Thank you for this reminder to trust God unconditionally, and to "let go" of my desire to be in control. This was a beautiful way to present this.

“Trust is not trust if I need to understand before I trust.”

Jesus, I trust you. I surrender myself and all to you. Take care of everything.

This was the exact message I needed today, Father. Thank you.

Thank you, Father Mike. Your homilies and ministry is a blessing to us!

Excellent homily as always! Thought provoking, challenging, and encouraging! Thank you!

Amazing homily, trust is the Lord and lean not on our own understanding! Love you Father Mike, I am praying for you please pray for me.❤

Amen. 🙏🏿

I need to watch this again, because you calm me so much that I fall sleep.

Father Mike You and Your Special Friends shared life messages are an Inspirational Blessing and Gift from God. From God's mouth through your heart and voice to our ears and hearts...while weeping through one of your best sermons yet...We Thank You for letting God's Peace Love and the Gift of Trust speak through You to Touch Our Souls For the Glory of God🙏🏾🙏🏻🙏 Amen

Thank you Father

Father, so often you say exactly what I need to hear.

That's been my prayer: Why is this suffering continuing and You, Lord, do not see it?... Thank you, Father, for this moving homily that helps me quit feeling sorry for myself 😢

Jesus I Trust In You❤

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Beautiful homily

thank you

Awesome sermon❤😊😊😊

Your words help me immensely! Thank you! ❤

If I knew the Who I wouldn’t ask why

🫓 Divine Host, Light of My Soul!

Thanks, Father Mike! My boyfriend and I are getting ready to start the RCIA. We are former atheists, and your videos have helped us find the right path. 😊

Thank you so much.❤

What a powerful message today Father Mike! I just forwarded it to my brother who is mourning the sudden loss of his 19 year old son😢

They are going to be so disappointed in placing conditions on God. 'I will worship you as long as i get what i want'.

I just listened to your homily on Hallow. Also, love noting that some of your quotes are the “thought” for the day. I started saying the surrender quote along with the Divine Mercy trust quote. Tho I am elderly and Catholic from conception - yes, I know that’s not said, but I think and feel that way about our Sacred Church. I still don’t understand what that encompasses. But your homily answered that in a simple, beautiful way. Thank you, again. I think I still have much to learn about a simple statement “Jesus I surrender to You or Jesus I trust in You.” But even the thought of needing more info is most likely not needed, for me anyway. Some wonderful theologians in our Church can really get into the innermost being of such statements and all I’m thinking is my usual intellectual response of “Huh?” Thank you again. I see I too put conditions on life experiences. Right now, I need help to organize stuff to give away most of it, and God hasn’t sent anyone knocking on my door saying that God has sent them. I would most likely not let them in thinking they are loonier than myself. If I could copy your homilies and talks, I would decorate my apt with them. I do have others I like, but so far you are still No. 1. Just thought should I be less effusive because you are a priest and desire to remain humble? Still, thanks so much for your homilies and talks such as BIY & CIY.

Thank you so much for the timely reminder, Fr. Mike! I needed to hear this…

Profound and so practical

Amen ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

The characters we read about in scripture don't ask why, but I think God does answer the question many many times. He says so often something in the pattern of, "(so that/and then), you will know that I the Lord am your God" and often followed by, "and then you will be my people, and I will be your God. I understand that to mean the answer to any why questions is that everytime God calls us is so that when all is said and done, we would know that He is God, know Him in every way that we had not known. And by knowing Him, we would belong to Him, and He to us. That we would accept Him as our God, to choose to belong to him, as He has already emrbaced us as children, and chose to belong to us.

Bless you father.

❤❤❤ Amen!

7:15 this is such a great lesson in life.

Amén ❤

Amen.

We have to remember that we control very little.

Great video

Oh boy. I don’t understand the expectations part. I don’t want tomorrow to be the same as today or all the other days that are now yesterday that have been challenging miserable threatening, ongoing unresolved. I do very much appreciate what you said about understanding. It’s been on my mind a lot in the last few years. When I think of wanting to understand it’s not so much to do with me trusting God as I think I could be comforted by knowing why something good was taken away and something bad has to stay and continue. Easier or a higher possibility of being able to accept. But I do see a connection between requiring understanding and trusting I don’t know if that’s how my mind has been working when I say to God, I want to understand and then it feels like I could go ahead, or I would know what to do that’s correct! If I knew the next right step to do, I wouldn’t have to be asking God for understanding what’s going on! Is the next step to give up or is the next step to pursue changing a situation even though everything in the situation is going against the things I need to do to change it for the better. Not understanding makes me feel stupid. Thank you all for listening and maybe Fr. Mike can elaborate on all this at some other time.

Thank you Fr Mike. Going through a difficult time where I found myself railing against God over the weekend because of my circumstances. So I needed to hear this. I'll go to confession on Saturday 🙏

Thanks!

As long as I understand....

Again, like Fr. Mike was talking to me

Estou muito feliz com a quantidade de opções de idiomas para a tradução automática. Penso que padre Mike é o Fulton Sheen da nossa geração e da internet. Que Deus proteja seu apostolado e resguarde sua fé!!! Greetings from Brazil!

Does Britt & Agnus have a place to send a card to? What a truly inspirational story! Players for them both.

Hi linda

I went through a difficult time in my life a few months ago (no where near as difficult as Brit's experience, difficult for me). I got to that point of 'as long as I understand'. I trust that Father Mike is right to tell us not to put that condition. I just don't know what to do then. How do I know what I should do? How do I know what the Lord is calling me to do or learn or be or not be if I don't understand?

“Their’s not to reason why, their’s but to do and die: into the valley of Death rode the six hundred.” Go forward, bravely! As St. Joan of Arc says.

Could I ask for Prayers I’m going through something right now that has me feeling like I’m being attacked by someone I thought was a Good person! It has cost me my Job and My Integrity… I am Trying not to let this affect my Future and Career! I’m Praying for Strength to Help me not to go into a dark depression! Jesus I Trust I. you with My Heart Soul and My Life !

They didn't ask why? Didn't most listed have doubts or ask other questions or tried to avoid...but ultimately did what was asked and made it 🎉

Bro... by Easter? I’d say yes, if he can have his cake and eat it too! Otherwise, I don’t need papers, and he doesn’t need a new suit. Our dad might be mad if it’s not cleared with him, tho. However, I don’t mind being unofficial. Ok. Good chat. Progress is happening. Digging out of the drug fueled loveless abyss, surrounded by the pious zombie apocalypse,created by power wielding narcissists, I’d be just happy to shadow my “prince.” ❤ Agape.

Father love your homilies thank you so much A question do you know how this lady is doing now ?

Father do you travel throughout country I would love to meet you or go to one of your events.

Father, I am curious about Jesus asking “father, father why hast thou forsaken me” so, he did ask why. Where others in the Bible did not. Could you elaborate on this and the connection. Thank you

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Dear Father Mike Schmitz, Is the Leadeth classes available to participate/listen to online?

I agree, but as simple as it is to trust like that, it is so complicated. Journeys are filled with so many moments of doubt not because we want to but because we are human. This world is really hard. Some weather the battle better than others. Are they any less dependent on God. Very complicated as was Bishop Barron's homily. Im tired.

Could I have the name of the priest that spent time in the Russia jail? wonder if there's a book about him?

It makes me sick while Dolan did to Saint Patrick's

Father hi, I've been lonely for a long time. I paint, but the people in the workshop are either feminists or atheists. My dad says he is a Christian, but he does nothing but write in the name of Christianity.All I have left is God and art, nothing else. People at work are not very talkative either. What should I do?

I know you will have no comment on Dolan

sounds like her fears came upon her ?

“Questions are normal. Questions are good. But if I need to know why, there will always be another question…there’s an infinite number of whys. There’s only one who. And if I know who, then I can say yes without understanding why.” This is deep !! 🤍